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‖ ˈnunatak
[Eskimo: introduced by Nordenskiöld.]
A peak of rock appearing above the surface of the inland ice in Greenland. Also applied to similar mountains in other regions.
The Swedish plural nunatakker has sometimes been used in English works.
1877Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XXXIII. 145 At Kangerdlugssuak, where the mountains are lofty and the sides of the fjords steep, there are three Nunataks..equalling the height of the neighbouring land; but above the Inland Ice of Disko..the Nunataks are lower Knolls. 1882J. D. Whitney Climatic Changes 303 Camp was made..at the foot of a nunatak, the summit of which was 4,960 feet above the sea-level. 1888Times 20 Nov. 9/5 The ‘nunataks’ which rise like skeletons above the frozen waste. 1900Nation 15 Nov. 391/3 The visible land is in the form of nunataks, or of sea-cliffs, with talus beaches here and there. 1921E. R. G. R. Evans South with Scott xiv. 190 Mount Hope is a nunatak of granite, about 2,800 feet in height. 1959Times 9 Jan. 11/6 Antarctic Findings... At Shackleton Base..we lacked..solid ground. Some nunataks could be seen over 20 miles away to the east, near Vahsel Bay. 1963‘G. Carr’ Lewker in Norway vi. 129 The only light..had turned snow-hummocks into far-off mountains and ricky nunataks into boulders. |