Landfast
Landfast is an adjective meaning firmly attached to land or secured to shore rather than floating or freely movable. The term derives from land and fast, an old sense of “firmly fixed.” In general usage, it can describe objects, structures, or installations anchored to the ground or coastline, or used metaphorically for ideas or arrangements that are fixed in place.
In polar science, landfast often appears in the compound landfast ice. This refers to sea ice that
Geographically, landfast ice occurs along various Arctic and sub-Arctic coastlines and in some sectors of Antarctica.
Beyond its scientific usage, landfast also functions as a general descriptor for anything fixed to land rather