word | | Terrain |
| ice | Pacific Ocean | ... and in the southern Pacific by a counterclockwise, cool-water gyre; in the northern Pacific, sea ice forms in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk in winter; in the southern Pacific ... |
| ice | Svalbard | wild, rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along west and north coasts |
| icecap | Greenland | flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast |
| icefields | Iceland | mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords |
| Iceland | Arctic Ocean | ... nearly straight-line movement from the New Siberian Islands (Russia) to Denmark Strait (between Greenland and Iceland); the icepack is surrounded by open seas during the summer, but more than doubles in ... |
| icepack | Arctic Ocean | central surface covered by a perennial drifting polar icepack that, on average, is about 3 meters thick, although pressure ridges may be three times that thickness; clockwise drift pattern in the Beaufort ... |
| icepack | Southern Ocean | ... lying at depths of 400 to 800 m (the global mean is 133 m); the Antarctic icepack grows from an average minimum of 2.6 million sq km in March to about 18.8 ... |
| Ile | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul): a volcanic island with steep coastal cliffs; the center floor of the volcano is a large plateau Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile ... |
| Iles | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... top of a volcano, rocky with steep cliffs on the eastern side; has active thermal springs Iles Crozet: a large archipelago formed from the Crozet Plateau is divided into two groups of ... |
| inaccessible | Bouvet Island | volcanic; coast is mostly inaccessible |
| increase | Southern Ocean | ... sq km in March to about 18.8 million sq km in September, better than a sixfold increase in area; the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (21,000 km in length) moves perpetually eastward; it is ... |
| indented | France | ... Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic in origin Martinique: mountainous with indented coastline; dormant volcano Reunion: mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast |
| indented | Iceland | mostly plateau interspersed with mountain peaks, icefields; coast deeply indented by bays and fiords |
| indented | Montenegro | highly indented coastline with narrow coastal plain backed by rugged high limestone mountains and plateaus |
| indented | Norway | glaciated; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in north |
| India | French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ... mountains, hills, valleys, and plains with a number of peninsulas stretching off its coasts Bassas da India (Iles Eparses): atoll, awash at high tide; shallow (15 m) lagoon Europa Island, Glorioso Islands ... |
| Indian | Indian Ocean | surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from ... |
| Indus | Pakistan | flat Indus plain in east; mountains in north and northwest; Balochistan plateau in west |
| intensely | Uzbekistan | mostly flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes; broad, flat intensely irrigated river valleys along course of Amu Darya, Syr Darya (Sirdaryo), and Zarafshon; Fergana Valley in east surrounded by mountainous Tajikistan ... |
| inter | Ecuador | coastal plain (costa), inter-Andean central highlands (sierra), and flat to rolling eastern jungle (oriente) |
| interior | Angola | narrow coastal plain rises abruptly to vast interior plateau |
| interior | Equatorial Guinea | coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic |
| interior | France | ... coastal plains rising to hills and small mountains Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grande-Terre is low limestone formation; most of the seven other islands are volcanic ... |
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