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ice barrier

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ice barrier
n.
A section of the Antarctic ice shelf that extends beyond the coastline, resting partly on the ocean floor.


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It ended abruptly in a sheer wall thousands of feet high at the base of which stretched a level valley, broken here and there by low rolling hills and little clumps of forest, and with tiny rivers formed by the melting of the ice barrier at its base.
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