Lake Grantsburg, formed when the Grantsburg Sublobe of the Des Moines Lobe blocked southward drainage of the ice-free land to its north.

Rasmussen founded Thule in 1910, and between 1912 and 1914 traveled more than 1,300 miles (2,100 km) over the ice, discovering a large area of ice-free land with much game.

Areas available for plant colonisation on Heard Island are generally the result of retreating glaciers or new ice-free land created by lava flows.

The 129 ha IBA comprises the ice-free land of the cape.

People working in Antarctica may be few, but so is ice-free land.

Present-day forests occupy about a quarter of the world's ice-free land with about half of these occurring in the tropics.

The Adélie penguin lives on sea ice but needs the ice-free land to breed.

The 54 ha IBA comprises the ice-free land of the cape, extending for 1.5 km between Aitken Cove and Methuen Cove.

There are many reasons for concern: *People have transformed or manipulated ecosystems constituting about half the planet's ice-free land surface and have made a significant impact on most of the rest.

It was the least-densely-populated administrative division in the world with 843 people living in 106,700 km2 of ice-free land with a density of 0.0079 people per square kilometre.