Ice cap

An ice cap is a dome-shaped water ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km? of land area (usually covering a highland area). Masses of ice covering more than 50,000 km? are termed an ice sheet.

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Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features (i.e. they will lie over the top of mountains) but their dome is usually centred around the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the ice divide) towards the ice cap's periphery.

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Vatnaj?kull is an example of an ice cap in Iceland.

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Ice cap related Images and Photos (experimental)

Arctic Explorer Robert Peary Meeting the Relief Expedition on the Greenland Ice-Cap August 5 1892	Ice-T	Ice T	Ice Cube
Ice Cube	Ice Arch	Ice Cats	Icecap Composite
Ice Age 2	Ice Straws	Ice Dreams	Cap Reinga