Definitions for nunataks

nunataks nun·a·tak

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

Nunataks is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 157 anagrams from letters in nunataks (aaknnstu).

Definitions for nunataks

noun

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

Origin of nunataks

1875-80; Inuit (West Greenlandic) nunataq

Examples for nunataks

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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