Nunatak
//ˈnʌn.ə.tæk// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet.
"We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise."
Example
More examples"We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise."
Etymology
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
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