nunatak

noun

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

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.”

   “Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.”