nunatak
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nunatak
1875–80; < Inuit (West Greenlandic) nunataq
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A nunatak, which is a rocky peak rising above the surrounding ice, resembles an empty eye socket.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Gokul’s final word was nunatak, an Inuit word for the exposed, often rocky, portion of a mountain or peak not covered with ice or snow.
From Forbes ● Jun. 3, 2015
A nunatak sticking above the ice of the polar plateau.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2010
For First-Timer, an Icy Challenge The wonders of Antarctica: a moraine in the foreground and a large nunatak, or exposed element of a ridge or peak within an ice field, behind it.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2010
A hill thus surrounded by ice is a nunatak.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
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