DCHP-1 Online
nunatak [< Esk.] 
n. an isolated mountain-peak or hill rising above glacial ice.
- 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.
- 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.