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What is a whaleback?

What is a whaleback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A kind of cargo steamship with a hull that continuously curved above the waterline from vertical to horizontal.
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The waterfall, trackway and the whaleback of rock made it a key location in the landscape.
The whaleback upward-facing folds of Domain 2 are consistent with a dominantly subhorizontal NW-SE contractional strain.
Linking the high tops of Sgor Gaoith and Sguran Dubh Mor, the ridge continues northwards before swelling into a broad whaleback above Rothiemurchus.
Ranchers and environmentalists are again coming together to fight a proposal to drill for oil and gas in southern Alberta, this time near the protected Whaleback region.
The old hag's presence was clearly evident as I climbed the mountain's long whaleback ridge.
Head east now over a broad whaleback to the cairn at 829m, the summit of Brown Cow Hill.

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