A large conical mound that contains an ice core. This feature can be up to 60 to 70 meters in height. Form in regions of permafrost. Common in the Mackenzie Delta region of Canada. Also see the relate [..]

A large frost mound of more than one-year duration.

A large frost mound of more than one year's duration. While this Eskimo term is used in several related senses, the above meaning is becoming increasingly accepted.

a conical mound of soil-covered ice pushed up from ground permeated by permafrost.

  a dome-shaped hill in a flat tundra plain, often having a depression in the summit. Closed system pingos occur in areas of continuous permafrost where unfrozen water beneath lakes becomes overly sat [..]

pixi : pcitum : to paint, embroider, draw / stain, dye / decorate

An Inuit word for ‘hill’. They are big mounds of ice that get pushed up by groundwater and then covered over with soil.

V paint| draw; depict| portray

A large frost mound of more than one-year duration.

A large frost mound of more than one-year duration.

A large frost mound of more than one-year duration.

(geomorphology) A conical mound with an ice core (that is, a mound of earth-covered ice), particularly if lasting more than a year; caused by permafrost uplift.