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Viral posts present them as a lost civilization’s handiwork; geologists call them nunataks, mountain summits standing above the ice, and, in some cases, glacial horns whose sharp faces were sculpted by erosion.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Video shows Antarctic base located on 'nunatak' The building shown in the video is South Africa's SANAE IV research station, which can be seen on Google Earth.
—Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Now, White Desert welcomes fewer than 300 guests per eternal-daylight season at two luxury camps made up of convivial bubble huts in Queen Maud Land, surrounded by majestic nunataks, or rocky outcrops.
—Annabel Illingworth, TIME, 25 July 2024
Echo is a short drive from Wolf’s Fang Runway but Patrick Woodhead, ever the adventurer, led us over a nunatak instead.
—Ali Wunderman, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
Abby Watts, a college student from Juneau, Alaska, is standing on a nunatak—an exposed ridge above an icefield.
—Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
Come to Sheldon Chalet for the ultimate in exclusive get-aways: the property sits on its own almost 5-acre nunatak or glacier rock outcropping in Denali National Park, and the nearest town is 55 air miles away (the summit of Denali, conversely, is much closer—barely 10 miles hence).
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2023
There are several nunataks at Graves, all peaks of the same mountain.
—Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
While Shivashankar correctly spelled scherenschnitte, a German word for the art of paper cutting design, Venkatachalam nailed nunatak, an Inuit word for a kind of glacial island.
—Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 1 June 2018
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Video shows Antarctic base located on 'nunatak' The building shown in the video is South Africa's SANAE IV research station, which can be seen on Google Earth.
—Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
Now, White Desert welcomes fewer than 300 guests per eternal-daylight season at two luxury camps made up of convivial bubble huts in Queen Maud Land, surrounded by majestic nunataks, or rocky outcrops.
—Annabel Illingworth, TIME, 25 July 2024
Echo is a short drive from Wolf’s Fang Runway but Patrick Woodhead, ever the adventurer, led us over a nunatak instead.
—Ali Wunderman, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2023
Abby Watts, a college student from Juneau, Alaska, is standing on a nunatak—an exposed ridge above an icefield.
—Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
Come to Sheldon Chalet for the ultimate in exclusive get-aways: the property sits on its own almost 5-acre nunatak or glacier rock outcropping in Denali National Park, and the nearest town is 55 air miles away (the summit of Denali, conversely, is much closer—barely 10 miles hence).
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2023
There are several nunataks at Graves, all peaks of the same mountain.
—Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
While Shivashankar correctly spelled scherenschnitte, a German word for the art of paper cutting design, Venkatachalam nailed nunatak, an Inuit word for a kind of glacial island.
—Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 1 June 2018
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“Nunatak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nunatak. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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