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nunataq

nunataq is the alternative form 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

Forms of nunataq

pluralnunataqs

Questions about nunataq

What is nunataq the alternative form of?
Nunataq is the alternative form of nunatak.

Words near nunataq in the dictionary

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

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