It was the aurora borealis of the frozen pole exiled to a summer land!
Fraa Jad urges Erasmas to continue his search for Orolo towards the North (over the frozen pole of Arbre), suggesting that Orolo has valuable information about the aliens.
After a dangerous journey over the planet's frozen pole, Erasmas and his comrades eventually arrive at a concent-like establishment called Orithena, and reunite with Fraa Orolo.
They were flying over her enormous frozen pole, and the planet looked as white and pure as a child's snowball.
Scientists believed that what little water remained was trapped in the planet's frozen poles.
There was little cloud over the great ice sheets-merely wisps of cirrus, streaked by winds that seemed to tear perpetually around immense low-pressure systems squatting over the frozen poles.
About half Earth's diameter with one-third the gravity and only 1 percent of the atmosphere, spacecraft have found that Mars nonetheless harbors the important asset of water beneath its surface and in its frozen poles.
The frozen poles of the earth do not coincide, either in the southern or in the northern regions; and, until it is proved to the contrary, we may suppose either a continent or an ocean free from ice at these two points of the globe.
In 1983, he featured in the Christmas film A Christmas Story as Flick, who got his tongue stuck to a frozen pole.
Here Davis turns his prophetic eye from the "toxic metropolis" to the frozen (but no longer sufficiently frozen) poles.