Definitions for nunatak

nunatak nun·a·tak

Spelling: [nuhn-uh-tak]
IPA: /ˈnʌn əˌtæk/

Nunatak is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in nunatak (aaknntu).

Definitions for nunatak

noun

  1. a hill or mountain that has been completely encircled by a glacier.

Origin of nunatak

1875-80; Inuit (West Greenlandic) nunataq

Examples for nunatak

The schistose rocks from Scott's nunatak are streaked, and, in part, very fine-grained quartz diorite schists.

A number of the stones from Scott's nunatak were brought away because they were thickly overgrown with lichens.

One of us, in any case, found immense enjoyment in rolling one big block after another down the steep slopes of the nunatak.

Two Indians carried the baggage over the rocky moraine to the clear glacier at the side of one of the eastern nunatak Islands.

We very soon put our things together, and came down the nunatak even more quickly.

The second nunatak was on the course; a sharp peak in the south, hidden by the contour of the uprising ridges.

In the centre of the bay was a nunatak, which from its shape at once received the name of the Alligator.

Later I climbed the large nunatak Island, seven thousand feet high, near the west margin of the glacier.

At each end of the nunatak there was a very fine bergschrund.

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