They proved this was not the case in a remarkable 1, 000-km journey across the inland ice that almost killed them.
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Over the next few days the party struggled to ascend the inland ice over a treacherous surface with many hidden crevasses.
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This web of tributaries forms a transition zone between the sluggish inland ice and the swiftly moving ice streams closer to the margins.
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"' North Ice "'was a research station of the British North Greenland Expedition ( 1952 to 1954 ) on the inland ice of Greenland.
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Ice activity has demolished the inland ice segment of the road, and it now ends in Isunngua, on the edge of the ice sheet.
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To some scientists, this raises the possibility that inland ice sheets might behave likewise, causing sea level to rise more rapidly than scientists have anticipated.
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In the west, the glaciers joined with the ice stream network in the Karakoram, and in the north, joined with the former Tibetan inland ice.
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North Ice was the name of a research station of the British North Greenland expedition ( 1952 to 1954 ) on the inland ice of Greenland.
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This limestone was originally imbedded in sedimentary limestone, but the latter was shaved off during the latest Ice age when the inland ice sheet moved, leaving high hills of reef limestone.
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With Edward Whymper, brother of Frederick, he attempted to penetrate the inland ice of Greenland in 1867, and made many discoveries concerning its nature which were later confirmed by Robert Peary.
