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Term: Nunatak
Definition: A rocky crag or small mountain projecting from and surrounded by a glacier or ice sheet.
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Term: Nunatak
Definition: A mountain peak or ridge that pokes through the surface of an Ice Field or a Glacier. It may separate adjacent Valley Glaciers (Greenlandic).
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Term: Nunatak
Definition: A rocky crag or small mountain projecting from and surrounded by a glacier or ice sheet.
GCW NSIDCCryosphere
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Term: Nunatak
Definition: A mountain, or any exposed ground, projecting from and surrounded by glacier ice. The word is a 19th-century borrowing from the Greenlandic language.
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Term: Nunatak
Definition: Small mountain, rocky crag, or outcrop projecting from a glacier, ice shelf or snowfield.
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Term: Nunatak
Definition: (from the Inuit) An island of bedrock or mountain projecting above the surface of an ice sheet or highland icefield.
GCW Swisseduc
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