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  2. List of nunataks - Wikipedia

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    Nunataks, also called glacial islands, are exposed portions of ridges, mountains, or peaks not covered with ice or snow within (or at the edge of) an ice field or glacier. [1] Nunataks present readily identifiable landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named. The term is derived from the Inuit word, nunataq.

  3. Scott Nunataks - Wikipedia

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    The formation was discovered in 1902 by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Captain Robert Falcon Scott.It was named after Scott by Lieutenant Kristian Prestrud, leader of the Eastern Sledge Party of Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910–1912), who ascended the nunataks while exploring Edward VII Peninsula in 1911.

  4. Bertrab Nunatak - Wikipedia

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    Bertrab Nunatak is a nunatak on the southern side of Lerchenfeld Glacier and about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west-south-west of the Littlewood Nunataks. It has been described as "a bare rock about 1,739 feet high [that] forms the southern entrance point of the [Duke Ernst] Bay." [1]

  5. Snow Nunataks - Wikipedia

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    The Snow Nunataks (or Ashley Snow Nunataks) are a line of four widely separated nunataks on the coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, trending east–west for 20 mi (32 km) southward of Case Island. [1] They consist of volcanic outcrops that probably represent several small subglacial volcanoes .

  6. Sørensen Nunataks - Wikipedia

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    Sørensen Nunataks) is a group of about 15 nunataks extending about 6 nautical miles (11 km), forming the northwest part of the Drygalski Mountains in Queen Maud They were first plotted from air photos by the German Antarctic Expedition of 1938–39.

  7. Grossman Nunataks - Wikipedia

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    The Grossman Nunataks) are a group of about a dozen nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, rising 1,300–1,500 metres (4,300–4,900 ft) in elevation and running northwest–southeast for 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) between the Lyon Nunataks and the Sky-Hi

  8. Gannon Nunataks - Wikipedia

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    The Gannon Nunataks) are a notable twin-peaked group of nunataks (about 750 metres (2,460 ft) high) and several smaller rock outcrops, located between the northern end of the LeMay Range and the Lully Foothills, situated in the west-central portion of Alexander Island (between Haydn Inlet and Schubert Inlet), Antarctica

  9. Atoll Nunataks - Wikipedia

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    Atoll Nunataks) is a group of nunataks on the north side of Uranus Glacier, 3 miles (5 km) west of Mount Ariel, in eastern Alexander Island, AntarcticaThey were mapped from trimetrogon air photography taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–48, and from survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1948–50, and so named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee ...