nunatak

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

[edit] English

Wikipedia has an article on:

Nunatak

Wikipedia

Starr Nunatak, on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica.

From Greenlandic nunataq.

Cântaro Magro, Serra da Estrela, Portugal, formed as nunatak during the last ice age and now exposed.

nunatak (plural nunataks)

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.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 155:
  
  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.

mountaintop surrounded by glacial ice