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nunatak

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/Sorted aaknntuStarts with NEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A mountain peak or ridge that rises above a surrounding glacier or ice sheet.

Word origin

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
  • 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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