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nunataker

nunataker is the plural of nunatak.

Meaning of nunatak

Noun

nunatak (plural nunataks or nunataker)

  1. 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.
    • 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.1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913, volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd., page 365

Questions about nunataker

What is nunataker the plural of?
Nunataker is the plural of nunatak.

Words near nunataker in the dictionary

  1. Nunamiuts
  2. Nunan
  3. Nunans
  4. nunas
  5. nunatak
  6. nunataker
  7. nunataks
  8. nunataq
  9. nunataqs
  10. nunate
  11. nunated

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