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What is the term for a lake that is permanently covered by ice?

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Published in Geography Trivia

Endorheic
Meromictic
Shrunken
Subglacial

Subglacial. Glacier ice frequently looks blue to the eye, because it absorbs all the colors of the spectrum except blue, which gets scattered back.

 

 

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