nunatak

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  1. A crest or ridge of rock appearing above the surface of the inland ice in Greenland. Here camp was made at an elevation of 4,030 feet, and at the foot of a nunatak, the summit of which was 4,960 feet above the sea-level. J. D. Whitney, Climatic Changes, p. 303.

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