ice-free
4.Qingdao is an important manufacturing center, ice-free port and pretty summer resort.
5.Once there, he would cling to the handrail until he reached the lower steps that the warmer tunnel air kept ice-free.
6.The ice-free areas in circum Antarctica appear with the climate becoming warm and the ice sheet retreating ,which are the ideal sites to study on the environmental evolutional history in Antarctica ,even on the global environmental change.
7.According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, September sea ice was 39 percent below the long-term average from 1979 to 2000. Sea ice cover is in a downward spiral and may have passed the point of no return, with a possible ice-free Arctic Ocean by summer 2030, senior scientist Mark Serreze said.
8.The subsurface warm water has been observed frequently in the summer ice-free sea area of the Arctic Ocean, that is, a temperature maximum occurred in water depths of 20 to 50 m.
9.A city of western British Columbia, Canada, on the Pacific Ocean near the Alaska border. A railroad and highway terminus and ice-free port, it is a processing and shipping center. Population,16, 197.
10.A city of northwest European U.S.S.R. on the northern Kola Peninsula on an inlet of the Barents Sea. A major ice-free port, it was the terminus of an important supply line to the U.S.S.R. in World Wars I and II. Population,419, 000.
