Definition of "land-ice" [land-ice]

• A field or fioe of ice stretching along the coast and holding fast to it, or included between headlands. Also called fast ice. Kane. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It seems almost incredible, but these men succeeded in working their way on foot over sea-ice and land-ice, cracks and crevasses, hard snow and loose snow, to the Magnetic Pole, and making observations there."
• "The most recent climate warming trend during the industrial period overprints Holocene climate shifts that have occurred due to orbit-induced variations in solar insolation, as well as oscillations produced by local to regional shifts in sea surface temperatures, atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns, and the extent of land-ice cover [28]."
• "This was probably due to the effects of local residual land-ice cover and local sea surface temperatures [57]."