nunatak
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nunatak | nunataks |
\nu.na.tak\ |
nunatak \nu.na.tak\ masculin
Si son cap est juste, il devrait atteindre la côte est du Groenland au niveau du Gunnbjørn, la montagne la plus haute du pays, un nunatak dont le sommet devrait percer la calotte de glace environnante, un bon point de repère.— (Jean-Marc Ligny, Alliances, 2020)
À contre-jour, dans ce soleil déjà assez bas sur l’horizon, aveuglant, nous ne voyons presque rien. Seuls les nunataks se rapprochent comme nous descendons, grossissent, bleuissent.— (Réalités: femina-illustration, Numéros 72 à 77, page 104, 1952)
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nunatak \Prononciation ?\ |
nunataks \Prononciation ?\ |
nunatak \ˈnʌnətæk\, \ˈnuːnətæk\
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.— (Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913, Volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd. (1922), page 365, 1922)
Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.— (Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, & Miriam Vásquez, "The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego", in The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (ed. J. Rabassa), Elsevier (2008), ISBN 9780444529541, page 45, 2008)
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.— (Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 155, 2006)
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