NUNATAK

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NUNATAK , a name applied in Greenland (and thence extended in use elsewhere) to a hill or

mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish
  Bergen
  - BERGEN
  )
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

peak

PEAK, THE

appearing above the surface of a

glacier

GLACIER
GLACIER (adopted from the
French
; from glace, ice, Lat. glacies)

. Greenland is for the most

part

PART

covered by an ice-cap of a certain thickness which moves slowly down-wards to the sea. It will rise upwards and pass over a barrier if there is no outlet, but it will flow between and around

mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish
  Bergen
  - BERGEN
  )
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

peaks leaving them

standing

STANDING

as hills (nunataks) above the general surface of the ice-cap. These prominences are sometimes covered with arctic vegetation, and arctic

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

bloom

BLOOM (from A.S. bloma, a flower)

freely upon them in the summer.

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