Talk:Nunatak

Spelling

Butress Nunatak is an orphan rdlk (except for this one ref), and all 16 unique G-hits on the phrase are derived from WP. On the other hand, Buttress Nunatak is lk'd by Req'd articles, and the phrase has 5 WP-independent hits at 3 sites.
--Jerzy•t 00:20, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Webster's lists nunatak as the English spelling of this word with nunataq being its Inuit root. I'm concerned it's a little pejorative and perhaps misleading to imply that nunatak is an improper spelling. --Capnpitz 22:50, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Size and scale

Is there any chance of the rnage of sizes of nunataks being mentioned? In particular, the size of the nunataks in the photo would be useful. 78.151.115.229 (talk) 18:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Portugal ?

A nunatak is a rocky peak sticking out of a glacier, ice sheet or ice cap. How can there be one in Portugal ? Its bogus.Eregli bob (talk) 16:26, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

There can be one wherever there was a continuous ice sheet, such as the one that covered the Serra de Estrela during the last ice age, see this link. Mikenorton (talk) 16:36, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

I've now moved the picture down, reworded the caption and added the ref. Mikenorton (talk) 16:36, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Bibliography

Does the Bibliography section belong in this article? If so, can someone add some kind of explanation of why. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.75.16.99 (talk) 07:39, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

A good question. It would fit as a 'Further Reading' section for an article on Antarctic exploration, but seems entirely irrelevant here. I'll remove it. Mikenorton (talk) 11:53, 9 August 2012 (UTC)