Ice cap
Ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km² of land area / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the glacial feature. For other uses, see Icecap (disambiguation).
In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than 50,000 km2 (19,000 sq mi) are termed ice sheets.[1][2][3]