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Definition of Nunatak
1. n. In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.
Definition of Nunatak
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nunatak
1. a mountain peak completely surrounded by glacial ice [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nunatak
Literary usage of Nunatak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"A little further to the north of that point I saw a nunatak, at the base of which
the ice seemed also to be retreating. On the northern side a very ..."
2. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"CHAPTER VIII nunatak AND CASCADING GLACIERS nunatak GLACIER General Description.1 As
in the case of all the larger glaciers of this region the name was ..."
3. Glaciers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and by Israel Cook Russell (1897)
"Near where it discharges into the bay it is divided by a rounded dome of rock
which rises through the ice and forms a nunatak, as such islands in ice are ..."
4. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the by Roald Amundsen (1913)
"One of us, in any case, found immense enjoyment in rolling one big block after
another down the steep slopes of the nunatak. At any rate, the sport had ..."
5. Elementary Physical Geography by Ralph Stockman Tarr (1895)
"Beyond a few miles from the coast, even these high mountain peaks disappear, and
there is a great ice plateau, FIG. 181. A nunatak rising above the ..."
6. Two Summers in Greenland: An Artist's Adventures Among Ice and Islands, in by Andreas Christian Riis Carstensen (1890)
"... reindeer hunting grounds—Strange appearance of the soil near the ice—Signs of
prevailing south-east winds—Jensen goes to a nunatak—Whortleberries-—We ..."
7. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1897)
"The greater volume of the ice comes from the eastward of the nunatak, ...
Figure 17 gives a nearer view of the small nunatak, and presents just the upper ..."
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