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NUNATAK , a name applied in See also:Greenland (and thence extended in use elsewhere) to a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill or See also:mountain See also:peak appearing above the See also:surface of a See also:glacier. Greenland is for the most See also:part covered by an See also:ice-cap of a certain thickness which moves slowly down-wards to the See also:sea. It will rise upwards and pass over a barrier if there is no outlet, but it will flow between and around mountain peaks leaving them See also:standing as hills (nunataks) above the See also:general surface of the ice-cap. These prominences are sometimes covered with See also:arctic vegetation, and arctic See also:flowers See also:bloom freely upon them in the summer.
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