Nunatak

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nunatak \Nu"na*tak\, n.; pl. {-taks}(the pl. form {Nunatakker}
     is Swedish). [Eskimo nunaettak.]
     In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an
     ice sheet.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]