nunatak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nunatak
1875–80; < Inuit (West Greenlandic) nunataq
Example Sentences
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Nunatak means the summit of a mountain that jets out from a glacier.
From Fox News • Jul. 9, 2021
Winners: 2015’s Spelling Bee champions were Vanya Shivashankar, who spelled "Scherenschnitte" correctly, and Gokul Venkatachalam, who spelled "Nunatak."
From Fox News • Jul. 9, 2021
We flew the 240 miles from the South Pole and worked two moraines downstream of Strickland Nunatak and Hatcher Bluffs, near the head of the large Reedy Glacier.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2011
Hauling samples over the blue ice back to the Twin Otter at Strickland Nunatak.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2011
Delayed by these and by unfavourable weather, they did not reach Madigan Nunatak until the evening of November 20.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
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