nunatak

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

nunataks plural nunataker plural nunataq alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Greenlandic nunataqbor.
English nunatak
Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
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