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.
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Nunatak
//ˈnʌn.ə.tæk//
Synonyms for "nunatak"
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11 translations across 11 languages.
Danish
1 entries- nunatak noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Faroese
1 entries- jøkulfjall noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Finnish
1 entries- nunatak noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
French
1 entries- nunatak noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
German
1 entries- Nunatak noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Greenlandic
1 entries- nunataq noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Polish
1 entries- nunatak noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Russian
1 entries- нуната́к noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Slovak
1 entries- nunatak noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Ukrainian
1 entries- нуната́к noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Welsh
1 entries- nwnatac noun (mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
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The peak in whose lee you have chosen to set up your command post is far too regular in shape to be the nunatak you imagine it.
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