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Nunataks in Antarctica Cântaro Magro, Serra da Estrela, Portugal, formed as a nunatak during the last ice age and now exposed [1]. A nunatak (from Inuit nunataq) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge.
Boreas Nunatak (coordinates: 71°18′S 3°57′W) is a 220-metre-high (720 ft) nunatak, nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Passat Nunatak at the mouth of Schytt Glacier in Queen Maud Land. It was discovered by the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938–1939), led by Capt. Alfred Ritscher , and named after Boreas , one of the Dornier flying ...
Nunatarsuaq is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet (Greenlandic: Sermersuaq) drains into the bay alongside its entire length apart from an occasional nunatak. [1] [2] Nunatarsuaq is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northernmost part of Upernavik Archipelago.
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A nunatak rising to about 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) high, 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) north-northeast of Schmutzler Nunatak in the southeast end of the Grossman Nunataks. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1961-68, and Landsat imagery, 1973-74.
A crag immediately south of the All-Blacks Nunataks, 10 kilometres (6 mi) northwest of Rutland Nunatak, in Antarctica.It was named in honor of Dave Geddes, who was involved in operational work for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Antarctic Division and the New Zealand Antarctic Research Programme from 1986 to 1995.
A small nunatak 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) southwest of Jurassic Nunatak in the west extremity of the Yee Nunataks. Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after the Triassic Period in geological time and in association with Jurassic Nunatak. The name does not imply the age of the rock constituting this feature. [3]
Oceana Nunatak) is one of the Seal Nunataks, lying at the northwest corner of Robertson Island, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula Discovered by a Norwegian whaling expedition under C.A. Larsen in December 1893, and named after the Oceana Co . of Hamburg, a sponsor of the expedition.