ice-barrier

It was given the name of Adélie Land, and a part of the ice-barrier lying to the west of it was called C'ote Clarie, on the supposition that it must envelop a line of coast.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

Cethlenn flew Abbey across the slick ice-barrier that Alice had created to protect her domain, then floated both of them down to stand in the long, white-on-white corridor.

Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

He was led to believe that he might, now that the ice-barrier was removed, be more unreserved in his wooing.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

From the archaic ice-barrier to the Caspian Sea, a long line of division, permanent since ice and inertia first took possession, divided his lines of force, with no relation to climate or geography or soil.

Teufelsdröckh (1901) 1918

The man whose post was past my sleeping platform had been commander of the navy of a great Martian nation; but fate had carried his flagship across the ice-barrier within the radius of power of the magnetic shaft, and now for many tedious years he had been a slave of the yellow men.

The Warlord of Mars 1913

The balance of the night we spent shivering in our inadequate sleeping silks and furs upon the snow that lies at the foot of the ice-barrier.

The Warlord of Mars 1913

For five days of cold and suffering and privation we traversed the rough and frozen way which lies at the foot of the ice-barrier.

The Warlord of Mars 1913

Fortunately none of us was injured, and when we had disentangled ourselves from the wreckage, and the lesser moon had burst again from below the horizon, we found that we were at the foot of a mighty ice-barrier, from which outcropped great patches of the granite hills which hold it from encroaching farther toward the south.

The Warlord of Mars 1913

I could see that he wondered not a little that a yellow man should be so inquisitive about certain red prisoners from beyond the ice-barrier, and that I should be so ignorant of customs and conditions among my own race.

The Warlord of Mars 1913

I noticed that the wrecked fliers scraped down the shaft's side, and that their fall was not as rapid as might have been expected; and then suddenly the secret of the shaft burst upon me, and with it an explanation of the cause that prevented a flier that passed too far across the ice-barrier ever returning.

The Warlord of Mars 1913