Your answer depends on who the person is and the intended use for the ice, and the type of ice you want to break.
Ice can be shattered by an ice pick, or cored with an ice-coring auger.
As to the euphemism asking how people begin or open conversations with each other while in Antarctica, people who find themselves in this geography can be fairly confident that anyone with whom they strike up a conversation will be amenable to a chat or discussion.
IceFlows.
There are people who choose to use ice as their sculpting medium in Antarctica.
These are called icebergs.
People in Antarctica ice fish and kill seals for there blubber.
Some people call Antarctica 'the ice'.
The Ross Ice Shelf is located in Antarctica. It is the largest ice shelf in Antarctica and is about the size of France.
Generally, the ice in Antarctica is several feed thick. Otherwise, on freshly formed ice, people step carefully so as not to crack the ice.
Glacier tongues that break off the Antarctic ice sheet are called icebergs once they disconnect from the sheet.
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Icebergs that break off the Antarctic ice sheet are composed of fresh water.
Ice Flows or Ice sheets (For 5th grade Jump Start game it's iceflows)
Loss of ice in Antarctica is measured and published, and the facts support that Antarctica is losing ice mass.