Nunatakとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• nunataq

語源

Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/, /ˈnuː.nə.tæk/
  • ハイフネーション: nun‧a‧tak

名詞

nunatak (複数形 nunataks または nunataker)

1. A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet. [from 1870s]
   • 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913‎^[1], volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd., page 365:

     We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise.

   • 2008, Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, & Miriam Vásquez, “The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego”, in J. Rabassa, editor, The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego‎^[2], Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:

     Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007:

     The peak in whose lee you have chosen to set up your command post is far too regular in shape to be the nunatak you imagine it.

参考

• monadnock

Further reading

• nunatak on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Kuantan