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What is a nunatak?

What is a nunatak? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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. [from 1870s]
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In the centre of the bay was a nunatak, which from its shape at once received the name of the Alligator.
Two automated weather stations were deployed, one at King Col, the other on a nunatak by the Seward Glacier.
A number of the stones from Scott's nunatak were brought away because they were thickly overgrown with lichens.
Later I climbed the large nunatak Island, seven thousand feet high, near the west margin of the glacier.
The wind has fallen away as if by magic and we enter the Utsteinen on as straight a line as possible, swinging between the nunatak and the ridge.
The schistose rocks from Scott's nunatak are streaked, and, in part, very fine-grained quartz diorite schists.

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