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icescape

A landscape dominated by ice; a representation of such a landscape.

6 Feb 1893 Burn Murdoch, W.G. (1894) From Edinburgh to the antarctic Longmans, Green and Co, London: 317.

The doctor took his photographic apparatus up to the crow's nest and photographed the ice-scape.

1964 Antarctic Society of Australia newsletter no 6 (June): 4.

The exhibition consists of 18 paintings, each 122 B 122 cm in size, executed in oil on hardboard. Most are landscapes or seascapes (perhaps better described as icescapes).

1993 Fiennes, Ranulph Mind over matter: the epic crossing of the Antarctic continent Sinclair-Stevenson, London foll. 262.

[caption] A wealth of beauty but also danger can be detected in an icescape by the practised eye.

The Antarctic Dictionary, Hince, 2000; 185