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nunatak
[< Esk.]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an isolated mountain-peak or hill rising above glacial ice.
Quotations
1958
It painfully threaded through a line of nunataks (mountain peaks almost submerged in ice), and reached ice with fewer crevasses on the high plateau behind.
1960
The only possible ice-free areas in the islands may have been the highest peaks that may have projected above the icefield surface as nunataks.
1961
Geological studies were begun, with visits to surrounding nunataks.