icebound

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This January, temperatures in Nuuk hovered at an unseasonably balmy 50 degrees Fahrenheit on some days, WSJ’s Max Colchester and Daniel Michaels write in this dispatch from Greenland’s icebound capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

The icebound river landscape may be at least 34 million years old, meaning that it would date to right before ice encrusted Antarctica.

From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023

As diphtheria - a serious and sometimes fatal bacterial infection - spread among Nome's people, its port was icebound, meaning antitoxin would have to be delivered overland.

From Reuters • Apr. 27, 2023

Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Since the vast disturbances in the Arctic, the ice had begun to disappear, and Iorek knew that he had to find an icebound fastness for his kin, or they would perish.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman