On the morning of the 17th we saw ice-blink on the starboard bow, and about noon we were close to the pack itself; it was here quite thick, and raised by pressure, so that an attempt to get through it was out of the question. ❋ Unknown (2003)
On the afternoon of the 11th we had strong ice-blink ahead, by which is meant the luminous stripe that is seen above a considerable accumulation of ice; the nearest thing one can compare it to is the glare that is always seen over a great city on approaching it at night. ❋ Unknown (2003)
By degrees the ice-blink above the Barrier became lighter and lighter, and before very long we were so close under it that we only just had room to go about. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It has happened at night that I have seen the ice-blink as far off as eight miles, and then there is nothing to fear; but sometimes in the middle of the day we have sailed close to icebergs that have only been seen a few minutes before we were right on them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the clear sky to the north a streak of lucid white light is the reflection from an icy surface; that is, “ice-blink,” in the language of these seas. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Generally speaking, a dark black sky means open water, and this is known as an open-water sky; high lights in the sky mean ice, and this is known as ice-blink. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)
Behind it was a continuous ice-blink and on our left, to the north, a deep blue "water sky." ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
P.M. the ship was steaming west in clear water, a few bergs being in sight and a marked ice-blink to the south. ❋ Douglas Mawson (1920)
On the afternoon of the 11th we had strong ice-blink ahead, by which is meant the luminous stripe that is seen above a considerable accumulation of ice; the nearest thing one can compare it to is the glare that is always seen over ❋ Roald Amundsen (1900)
In his account of the view from the summit he speaks of "the ice-blink caused by the extensive glacial sheets north of the Saint Elias group," which would surely be out of the range of any possible vision, but does not mention at all the master sight that bursts upon the eye when the summit is actually gained -- the great mass of "Denali's Wife," or Mount Foraker, filling all the middle distance. ❋ Hudson Stuck (1891)
The light at midnight is almost as bright as early evening twilight in New York on the Fourth of July and the ice-blink of the interior ice-cap is quite plain. ❋ Matthew A. Henson (1888)
On the verge of the horizon, the sky assumed that peculiar appearance which whalers call ice-blink, and which is the result of the glare of light reflected obliquely from the surface of the ice against the opposite atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (1874)
On Tuesday the 17th of April, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the ice-master signalled the first sight of the ice-blink; it was about twenty miles to the N.N.W. This glaring white strip was brilliantly lighted up, in spite of the presence of thick clouds in the neighbouring parts of the sky. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
"It is a peculiar, dark appearance of the sky on the horizon, which indicates open water -- just the reverse of that bright appearance which you have often seen in the distance, and which we call the ice-blink." ❋ Unknown (1859)
We cannot do better than quote his remarks upon _ice-blink_, that curious appearance of white light on the horizon, whereby voyagers are led to infer the presence of ice: -- ❋ Unknown (1859)
