ice fieldn.

1694 tr. F. Martens in Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 37 Ice-fields, that are as the Meadows for the Seales.

1748 H. Ellis Voy. Hudson's-Bay 240 We saw vast numbers of Seals and Sea-Horses lying basking upon the Ice-Fields.

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. iv. 241 Ice-fields constitute one of the wonders of the deep. They are often met with of the diameter of twenty or thirty miles.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xvi. 110 The ice-field before us was a most noble one.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 175 A fresh blast had been unchained among the far south ice-fields.

1947 Auk 64 278 The brilliantly brick-colored females [sc. red phalaropes]..had come seaward to play about in the Labrador ice fields during the summer.

1977 H. O'Hagan School-marm Tree ii. 25 To the south, the high ice fields glowed green and pink and warm like a sudden garden against the sky.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Apr. 10/2 He successfully navigated his ship through some of the world's most dangerous waters, through hidden reefs, Antarctic ice-fields, and home again.