Ice blink is the white light seen on the horizon, especially on the underside of low clouds1, resulting from reflection of light off a field of ice immediately beyond.
The ice blink was used by both the Inuit and explorers looking for the Northwest Passage to help them navigate safely.
The Cocteau Twins song, Iceblink Luck, is named after this phenomenon.
Famous quotes containing the words ice and/or blink:
““A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth”—
Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when the dissonance dissolves for the blink of an eye, dissolves into a blissful harmony, when the most extreme opposites, coming together from the greatest alienation, fleetingly touch with lips of the word and of love.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)