A nunatak (from

Inuit Inuit (singular: Inuk) are a group of culturally and historically similar Indigenous peoples traditionally inhabiting the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America and Russia, including Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwe ...

) is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or

glacier A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires ...

that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They often form natural

pyramidal peak A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from the cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point. Pyramidal peaks are often examples o ...

s. Isolated nunataks are also called glacial islands, and smaller nunataks rounded by glacial action may be referred to as rognons. The word is of Greenlandic origin and has been used in English since the 1870s.

Description

The term ''nunatak'' is typically used in areas where a permanent

ice sheet In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacier, glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than . The only current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice s ...

is present and the ridge protrudes above the sheet.J. J. Zeeberg, ''Climate and Glacial History of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russian Arctic''. pp. 82–84 Nunataks present readily identifiable landmark reference points in glaciers or ice caps and are often named. While some are isolated, they can also form dense clusters, such as

Queen Louise Land Queen Louise Land (; ) is a vast mountainous region located west of Dove Bay, King Frederik VIII Land, northeastern Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. The highest point of Queen Louise Land i ...

in Greenland. Nunataks are generally angular and jagged, hampering the formation of glacial ice on their tops, although snow can accumulate on them. This can contrast strongly with the softer contours of the glacially eroded land after a glacier retreats. They are not greatly affected by

frost weathering Frost weathering is a collective term for several mechanical weathering processes induced by stresses created by the freezing of water into ice. The term serves as an umbrella term for a variety of processes, such as frost shattering, frost w ...

, given the low frequency of freeze-thaw cycles in areas of ice caps and ice sheets. Typically nunataks are the only places where plant life can survive on ice sheets or ice caps. Lifeforms on nunataks are often isolated by the surrounding ice or glacier, providing unique habitats.ice cap – National Geographic Society
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Aitken Nunatak The Grosvenor Mountains () are a group of widely scattered mountains and nunataks rising above the Antarctic polar plateau east of the head of Mill Glacier, extending from Mount Pratt in the north to the Mount Raymond area in the south, and from ...

Åkerlundh Nunatak Åkerlundh Nunatak is a nunatak which lies northwest of Donald Nunatak between Bruce Nunatak and Murdoch Nunatak in the Seal Nunataks group, off the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Surve ...

Allan Hills The Allan Hills () are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica. Exploration and n ...

aka Allan Nunatak *

All-Blacks Nunataks All-Blacks Nunataks () is a group of conspicuous nunataks lying midway between Wallabies Nunataks and Wilhoite Nunataks at the southeast margin of the Byrd Névé in Antarctica. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (19 ...

* Altsek Nunatak *

Anderson Nunataks The Sweeney Mountains () are a group of mountains of moderate height and about extent, located north of the Hauberg Mountains in eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Location The Sweeney Mountains are in the southeast of Ellsworth Land. The ...

Anoritooq Anoritooq (old spelling: ''Anoritôq'') is a nunatak () in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Anoritooq is located on the mainland of Greenland in the northern part of Upernavik Archipelago. To the north, Greenland ice ...

Appalachia Nunataks The Appalachia Nunataks () are a group of nunataks rising to about on the west side of the Elgar Uplands, Alexander Island, Antarctica. They are situated 5.62 km southwest of Lyubimets Nunatak, 9 km southwest of Kozhuh Peak and 9.65 ...

Arena Corner Arena Corner () is an arcuate (curved) nunatak at the north end of the Traverse Mountains, east of McHugo Peak, on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. It was named in 1977 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Comm ...

Arkhangel'skiy Nunataks The Lazarev Mountains () are a chain of mountains in Antarctica. They extend along the west side of Matusevich Glacier southward of Eld Peak, and are about long. Discovery and naming The Lazarev Mountains were photographed from the air by Un ...

* Arrowhead Nunatak *

Atanasoff Nunatak Atanasoff Nunatak (Atanasov Nunatak \a-ta-'na-sov 'nu-na-tak\) is a nunatak, a sharp peak rising to in the east extremity of Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Huron Glacier to the south and east, and Struma Gl ...

Aviator Nunatak Liv Glacier () is a steep valley glacier, long, emerging from the Antarctic Plateau just southeast of Barnum Peak and draining north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter Ross Ice Shelf between Mayer Crags and Duncan Mountains. It was dis ...

Belknap Nunatak Thurston Island () is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. The island is separated from the main ...

Berg Mountains The Lazarev Mountains () are a chain of mountains in Antarctica. They extend along the west side of Matusevich Glacier southward of Eld Peak, and are about long. Discovery and naming The Lazarev Mountains were photographed from the air by Un ...

Bering Nunatak The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a nunatak group long, located east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Ellsworth Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount ...

Bon Docteur Nunatak Bon Docteur Nunatak, also known as Good Doctor Nunatak, is a small coastal nunatak, high, standing at the west side of the Astrolabe Glacier Tongue, south of Rostand Island in the Géologie Archipelago of Antarctica. It was photographed from t ...

Bradley Nunatak Bradley Nunatak () is a prominent nunatak standing southwest of Mount Tidd in the Pirrit Hills, Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It ...

Branson Nunatak The South Masson Range () is the southernmost of the three parts into which the Masson Range of the Framnes Mountains, Antarctica is divided. It rises to and extends in a northeast-southwest arc. Physical The South Masson Range has quite a dif ...

Brusilov Nunataks The Brusilov Nunataks () are a group of nunataks lying north of Mount Morrison in the Tula Mountains, Enderby Land Enderby Land is a projecting landmass of Antarctica. Its shore extends from Shinnan Glacier at about to William Scoresby Bay a ...

Butcher Nunatak The Guest Peninsula () is a snow-covered peninsula about long between the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay, in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Location The Guest Peninsula extends westward into the Pacific Ocean from ...

Cabrera Nunatak Cabrera Nunatak () is a nunatak northeast of Putzke Peak in the McCuddin Mountains, Marie Byrd Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1959–65, and named by the Advisory Committe ...

Calfee Nunatak The Reeves Glacier () is a broad glacier originating on the interior upland and descending between Eisenhower Range and Mount Larsen to merge with the Nansen Ice Sheet along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Discovery and naming The Reev ...

* Cameron Nunataks *

Canisp Canisp (Scottish Gaelic: ''Canasp'') is a mountain in the far north west of Scotland. It is situated in the parish of Assynt, in the county of Sutherland, north of the town of Ullapool. Canisp reaches a height of and qualifies as a Corbett a ...

, formed as a Nunatak * Carapace Nunatak * Cassandra Nunatak *

Castillo Nunatak Castillo Nunatak is a conspicuous rocky peak rising to 437 m on the glacial divide between Huntress Glacier and Balkan Snowfield on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked to Charrú ...

Castor Nunatak Castor Nunatak () is a nunatak southwest of Oceana Nunatak in the Seal Nunataks group, off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was first seen and mapped as an island in December 1893 by a Norwegian Sealing expedition under C.A. Larse ...

Cat Nunatak Cat Nunatak () is a nunatak in Antarctica, midway between Vince Nunatak and Hogback Hill in the southern part of Wilson Piedmont Glacier, Victoria Land. It was so named by the New Zealand Geographic Board in 1994, in recollection that ship's cats ...

* Catenary Nunatak * Cathedral Peak * C. H. Ostenfeld Nunatak * Chain Nunataks *

Cheeks Nunatak The Grossman Nunataks () are a group of about a dozen nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, rising in elevation and running northwest–southeast for between the Lyon Nunataks and the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The group includes features from the Smi ...

* Chocolate Nunatak *

Clem Nunatak The Worcester Range () is a high coastal range, about long, in Antarctica. It stands between Skelton Glacier and Mulock Glacier on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf. It is southwest of the Royal Society Range and north of the Conway Range ...

* Cone Nunatak * Copper Nunataks * Cowie Nunatak * Crash Nunatak * Crosby Nunataks * Daniels Hill * Dean Nunataks *

Dee Nunatak Hull Bay () is an ice-filled bay, about wide, fed by Hull Glacier, which descends into it between Lynch Point and Cape Burks, on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovery and name Hull Bay was discovered by the United States Antarcti ...

* Director Nunatak * Dodd Nunatak * Dome Nunatak * Dotten Nunatak *

Dow Nunatak The McDonald Heights () are broad, mainly snow-covered heights about long and rising over between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The heights are bounded southward by Hull Glacier, Kirkpatrick Glacier an ...

Downs Nunatak Downs Nunatak () is a nunatak rising to between the Garcie Peaks and Webb Peak, Crescent Scarp, in northwest Palmer Land. The nunatak was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service, 1940, the U.S. Navy, 1966, and was surv ...

Drury Nunatak The Lazarev Mountains () are a chain of mountains in Antarctica. They extend along the west side of Matusevich Glacier southward of Eld Peak, and are about long. Discovery and naming The Lazarev Mountains were photographed from the air by Un ...

* Du Toit Nunataks * Dziura Nunatak * Eaton Nunatak * Eckins Nunatak * Else Nunataks * Erehwon Nunatak * Erven Nunataks * Esther Nunatak * Everett Nunatak * Exile Nunatak *'' Exiles Nunataks'' * Fallone Nunataks * Faraway How * Farquharson Nunatak * Ferguson Nunataks * Fiebelman Nunatak * Filson Nunatak * Fin Nunatak * Florence Nunatak * Foltz Nunatak *

Fomalhaut Nunatak Fomalhaut Nunatak () is an isolated, flat-topped nunatak near the head of Ryder Glacier, east of Mount Alpheratz of the Pegasus Mountains, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the star Fomalha ...

* Footscrew Nunatak * Fraser Nunatak * Friedmann Nunataks * Galkin Nunatak * Gallen Nunatak * Gardner Nunatak * Gillett Nunataks * George Nunatak *

Gomez Nunatak The Playfair Mountains () are a group of mountains between Swann Glacier and Squires Glacier in southeast Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Playfair Mountains are in southern Palmer Land on the Lassiter Coast of the Weddell Sea. They lie ...

* Goodwin Nunataks * Gootee Nunatak *

Gora Severny Nunatak Gora Severny or Gora Severnyy Nunatak () is a nunatak in Novaya Zemlya. It is one of the very few nunataks of the Russian Federation. Administratively it falls under the Arkhangelsk Oblast. Geography Gora Severny Nunatak is located in the northe ...

* Gordon Nunataks * Gould Nunataks * Gratton Nunatak * Grayson Nunatak * Gromov Nunataks *

Gronau Nunataks The Gronau Nunataks () is a mountain range in King Christian IX Land, eastern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Sermersooq Municipality. History This group of nunataks at the edge of the vast Greenland Ice Sheet was first ...

Grossman Nunataks The Grossman Nunataks () are a group of about a dozen nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, rising in elevation and running northwest–southeast for between the Lyon Nunataks and the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The group includes features from the Smi ...

Guardian Nunatak Guardian Nunatak () is a rock exposure, high, on the ice-covered spur that descends from Mount Robert Scott east-northeastward toward the western edge of Hood Glacier, near the juncture with Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice ...

* Haigh Nunatak *

Half Century Nunatak Roberts Massif () is a remarkable snow-free massif at the head of Shackleton Glacier. It rises to over and is about in area. Discovery and naming Roberts Massif was visited by the Southern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic ...

* Half Dome Nunatak *

Halfway Nunatak Skelton Glacier () is a large glacier flowing from the polar plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf at Skelton Inlet on the Hillary Coast, south of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Naming and exploration Skelton Glacier was named after the Skelton Inlet by ...

* Hamner Nunatak *

Harter Nunatak Harter Nunatak () is a small, relatively isolated nunatak lying northeast of Mount Tidd at the northeast side of the Pirrit Hills in Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, ...

* Harvey Nunataks * Haupt Nunatak * Henry Nunataks * Herrmann Nunatak * Heuser Nunatak * Heverley Nunataks * Holt Nunatak * Hopalong Nunatak * Horne Nunataks * House Nunatak * Hutchins Nunataks *

Jaques Nunatak Jaques Nunatak () is a small nunatak lying south-southwest of Mount Kennedy in the Gustav Bull Mountains of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions air photos taken in 1936 and 1959, ...

Jane Peak Jane Peak is a conspicuous nunatak, high, standing west of the northern part of Borge Bay on Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. It was roughly surveyed in 1933 by Discovery Investigations personnel, and resurveyed in 1947 by the Falkla ...

Jarina Nunatak The Mawson Glacier () is a large glacier on the east coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, descending eastward from the Antarctic Plateau to the north of Trinity Nunatak and the Kirkwood Range, to enter the Ross Sea, where it forms the Nordenskjöld ...

* John Nunatak * Johnson Nunataks * Jorgensen Nunataks *

Jutulsessen Jutulsessen is a nunatak in the Gjelsvik Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It is located in Princess Martha Coast, from the King Haakon VII Sea. Jutulsessen is the site of the Norwegian research station Troll and the affiliated Troll Sa ...

* Kalafut Nunatak * Kamenev Nunatak * Kenfield Nunatak * Kinter Nunatak * Kjuklingen Nunatak * Klawatti Peak * Klinck Nunatak * Knight Nunatak * Koehler Nunatak * Komatsu Nunatak * Kozlov Nunataks *

Krasin Nunataks The Krasin Nunataks () are a small group of nunataks lying southeast of Alderdice Peak in the Nye Mountains of Enderby Land, Antarctica. The features were plotted by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) ...

* Krasnaya Nunatak * Krigsvold Nunataks * Kyle Nunataks *

Lacroix Nunatak Lacroix Nunatak () is a ridge of terminal moraine, about long and high, standing immediately south of a small zone of low rocky ridges which protrude above the ice-covered point southwest of Cape Margerie, Adélie Coast, Antarctica. It was discov ...

* Lands End Nunataks *

Lang Nunatak The Playfair Mountains () are a group of mountains between Swann Glacier and Squires Glacier in southeast Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Playfair Mountains are in southern Palmer Land on the Lassiter Coast of the Weddell Sea. They li ...

* Laputa Nunataks * Last Cache Nunatak * Lawson Nunatak * Lawson Nunataks * Leach Nunatak * Lee Nunatak * Lepley Nunatak * Lewisohn Nunatak * Lilliput Nunataks *

Lodalskåpa Lodalskåpa is the highest nunatak on the Norwegian glacier Jostedalsbreen. It is located on the border between the municipalities of Stryn and Luster, Norway, Luster in Vestland county, Norway, within Jostedalsbreen National Park. The tall Lo ...

* Lonely One Nunatak * Lonewolf Nunataks * Longs Nunatak *

López Nunatak López Nunatak is a steep-sided granitic nunatak, high, forming the northern extremity of the Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and overlooking Fuerza Aérea Glacier to the south-southwest, and Ash P ...

* Luck Nunatak * Luff Nunatak * Luhrsen Nunatak * McCarthy Nunatak * McDaniel Nunatak *

MacDonald Nunataks The Medina Peaks () are rugged, mainly ice-free, peaks surmounting a ridge long, extending north along the east side of Goodale Glacier to the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Discovery and naming Some of the peaks were first seen and ro ...

McGrath Nunatak McGrath Nunatak is a ridge-like nunatak at the west end of the Blånabbane Nunataks, standing southeast of Van Hulssen Nunatak in Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christe ...

* McNair Nunatak *

Maish Nunatak The Hudson Mountains are a mountain range in western Ellsworth Land just east of Pine Island Bay at the Walgreen Coast of the Amundsen Sea. They are of volcanic origin, consisting of low scattered mountains and nunataks that protrude through t ...

* Marcoux Nunatak * Marshall Nunatak * Martin Nunataks * Mathis Nunataks *'' Marujupu Peak'' * Meade Nunatak *

Meyers Nunatak The Hudson Mountains are a mountain range in western Ellsworth Land just east of Pine Island Bay at the Walgreen Coast of the Amundsen Sea. They are of volcanic origin, consisting of low scattered mountains and nunataks that protrude through t ...

Miller Nunatak Campbell Glacier () is a glacier, about long, originating near the south end of Mesa Range and draining southeast between the Deep Freeze Range and Mount Melbourne to discharge into north Terra Nova Bay in Victoria Land, Antarctica. Location ...

* Miller Nunataks * Milles Nunatak * Mirfak Nunatak * Mizar Nunataks * Moody Nunatak * Moltke Nunataks * Moreland Nunatak * Morgan Nunataks *

Morse Nunataks The Colbert Hills () are a line of hills and bluffs, including Coalsack Bluff, lying east of Lewis Cliffs, between Law Glacier and Walcott Névé in Antarctica. The hills trend southwest for from Mount Sirius. Exploration and name The Colbert ...

* Mulgrew Nunatak * Musson Nunatak *

Neptune Nunataks The Guest Peninsula () is a snow-covered peninsula about long between the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay, in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Location The Guest Peninsula extends westward into the Pacific Ocean from the ...

* Névé Nunatak * Newman Nunataks *

Nødtvedt Nunataks Nødtvedt Nunataks () is an isolated nunataks standing in mid-stream of the Amundsen Glacier, rising 7 nautical miles (13 km) east-northeast of Mount Bjaaland, Antarctica. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee ...

Noble Nunatak The Long Hills () are a group of hills and rock outcroppings about in extent, located midway between the Wisconsin Range and the Ohio Range in the Horlick Mountains of Antarctica. Discovery and naming The Long Hills were mapped by the United ...

* Nodule Nunatak * Nunatakassak * Nunatarsuaq * Nunatarsuaq (Tasiusaq Bay) *

Olander Nunatak The Yee Nunataks () are a group of scattered nunataks, about long and wide, centered northeast of Lyon Nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. The nunataks rise in elevation and in the four quadrants include Staack Nunatak, Olander Nunatak, Me ...

* Olson Nunatak * Omega Nunatak * Organpipe Nunatak *

Orsugissap Qaqqarsua Orsugissap Qaqqarsua (old spelling: ''Orssugissap Qaqqarssua'') is a nunatak () of the Greenland ice sheet in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography Orsugissap Qaqqarsua () is located on the mainland of Greenland in the nor ...

* Outrider Nunatak * Packsaddle Island * Papanin Nunataks *

Pawley Nunataks Pawley Nunataks is a line of four nunataks on the east side of Mount Allan, Traverse Mountains, on the Rymill Coast, Palmer Land. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1977 after Michael R. Pawley, British Antarctic ...

Pollux Nunatak Pollux Nunatak () is one of the Seal Nunataks, lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northwest of Robertson Island in Larsen Ice Shelf. The probable existence of the feature was first reported by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947 a ...

Potter Nunataks The Outback Nunataks () are a series of bare rock nunataks and mountains which are distributed over an area about long by wide. The group lies south of Emlen Peaks of the Usarp Mountains and west of Monument Nunataks and upper Rennick Glacier, ...

Price Nunatak Price Nunatak () is a nunatak marking the north end of the Trilling Peaks, 3 nautical miles (6 km) south of Mount Burnett in the Framnes Mountains, Mac. Robertson Land. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Chris ...

* Quest Nunatak *

Quilty Nunataks The Behrendt Mountains () is a group of mountains, long, aligned in the form of a horseshoe with the opening to the southwest, standing southwest of the Merrick Mountains in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Location The Behrendt Mountains are in th ...

* R4D Nunatak * Ranney Nunatak * Rebholz Nunatak * Recess Nunatak * Rescue Nunatak * Reynolds Nunatak * Ringed Nunatak * Robertson Nunatak * Rutland Nunatak *

Sage Nunataks The Gabbro Hills () are a group of rugged ridges and coastal hills which border the Antarctic Ross Ice Shelf between Barrett Glacier and Gough Glacier and extend south to Ropebrake Pass. They were so named by the Southern Party of the New Zealan ...

* Salient Nunatak * Sanders Nunatak * Savin Nunatak * Sawyer Nunatak * Scheimpflug Nunatak * Schloredt Nunatak * Schoofs Nunatak * Seacatch Nunataks * See Nunatak *

Sevier Nunatak Sevier Nunatak () is a nunatak lying southeast of Richter Peaks, rising to about 1,000 m at the south end of the Walton Mountains, situated in the central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The nunatak was named by the Advisory Committee o ...

* Shelton Nunataks *'' Ship Nunatak'' * Shoemake Nunatak * Singleton Nunatak * Slusher Nunatak * Småhausane Nunataks * Smørstabben Nunatak * Solitary Nunatak * Sonntag Nunatak * Spectator Nunatak *

Stac Pollaidh Stac Pollaidh () is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The peak displays a rocky crest of Torridonian sandstone, with many pinnacles and steep gully, gullies. The ridge was exposed to weathering as a nunatak above the ice sheet ...

, formed as a Nunatak * Stanford Nunatak * Starr Nunatak *

Static Nunatak The Quartermain Mountains ( ) are a group of exposed mountains in Antarctica, about long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land. They are east of the Lashly Mountains, south of the Asgard Range, west of the Kukri ...

* Stewart Hills *

Stinear Nunataks Stinear Nunataks () is a group of dark brown nunataks about 16 nautical miles (30 km) north of Anare Nunataks in Mac. Robertson Land. Visited by an ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) southern party (1954) led by R.G. ...

* Striated Nunatak *

Suilven Suilven is a Graham mountain in Scotland. Lying in a remote area in the west of Sutherland, it rises from a wilderness landscape of moorland, bogs and lochans known as Inverpolly National Nature Reserve. Suilven forms a steep-sided ridge som ...

, formed as a Nunatak *

Svarthamaren Mountain Svarthamaren Mountain is a prominent ice-free mountain or large nunatak on the east side of the mouth of Vestreskorve Glacier in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. It was mapped from surveys and aerial photographs by ...

* Swarsen Nunatak *

Swartz Nunataks The Worcester Range () is a high coastal range, about long, in Antarctica. It stands between Skelton Glacier and Mulock Glacier on the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf. It is southwest of the Royal Society Range and north of the Conway Range ...

* Symes Nunatak * Syningen Nunatak * Table Nunatak * Taurus Nunataks * Teltet Nunatak * Temnikow Nunataks * Tern Nunatak * Tester Nunatak * Themis Nunatak * Threshold Nunatak * Tomandl Nunatak * Tommeliten Rock * Tomovick Nunatak *

Toth Nunataks The Werner Mountains () are a group of mountains located just west-southwest of New Bedford Inlet and between the Meinardus Glacier and Bryan Glacier, in Palmer Land, Antarctica. Location The Werner Mountains are in southern Palmer Land on ...

* Trillingane Nunataks * Trioen Nunataks * Trubyatchinskiy Nunatak * Tuning Nunatak * Turret Nunatak * Tuttulikassak * Twin Nunataks * Utsteinen Nunatak *

Varney Nunatak The Whitmer Peninsula () is a broad ice-capped peninsula, about long and wide, between Cheetham Ice Tongue and Harbord Glacier Tongue on the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Location The Whitmer Peninsula is on the west coast of the Ross S ...

* Velchev Rock *

Vesleskarvet Vesleskarvet is a nunatak on the west side of Ahlmann Ridge located in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. Its western side consists of a series of cliffs, approximately 250 m high, while the eastern side slopes more gradually down to the icefields. The ...

* Velie Nunatak * Vesthaugen Nunatak * Vorta Nunatak * Vulcan Nunatak * Walker Nunatak * Wallis Nunataks * Walsh Nunatak *

Wandel Land Wandel Land is a nunatak () in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. It is one of several nunataks in the Melville Bay region of Greenland, where the Greenland ice sheet () drains into the bay alongside its entire length apart from a ...

* Ward Nunataks *

Watkins Range The Watkins Range () is Greenland's highest mountain range. It is located in King Christian IX Land, Sermersooq municipality. The range was named after British Arctic explorer Gino Watkins. History Made up entirely of nunataks, this remote ...

* Weather Guesser Nunataks * Weikman Nunataks *

Whichaway Nunataks The Recovery Glacier () is a glacier, at least long and wide at its mouth, flowing west along the southern side of the Shackleton Range in Antarctica. Discovery and name The Recovery Glacier was first seen from the air and examined from the ...

Whistler Nunatak The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a nunatak group long, located east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Ellsworth Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Lan ...

* White Nunataks * Wilds Nunatak *

Willan Nunatak Willan Nunatak is an ice-free tipped peak rising to 449 m on the glacier, glacial divide between Huntress Glacier and Balkan Snowfield on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked to B ...

* Williams Nunatak * Willows Nunatak * Windscoop Nunataks * Witte Nunataks * Wold Nunatak * Wyers Nunataks * Yingling Nunatak * Young Nunataks *

Zohn Nunataks The Grossman Nunataks () are a group of about a dozen nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, rising in elevation and running northwest–southeast for between the Lyon Nunataks and the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The group includes features from the Smi ...

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