Nunatak

Nunatak rehearsing for the Live Earth Concert

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Nunatak is the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station’s house band. The five person indie rock band is part of a science team investigating climate change and evolutionary biology on the Antarctic Peninsula.

On 7 July 2007 as part of Live Earth, Nunatak played to a sell out crowd of 17 (the entire population of the BAS research station Rothera) making up the Seventh Continent contingent of the Live Earth concerts. Lead singer Matt Balmer, 22, said of the event that the band "expected to spend our Antarctic winter here at Rothera quietly getting on with our work and maybe performing at the occasional Saturday night party. We could never have imagined taking part in a global concert."

The band's name is the Greenlandic word for a mountain top protruding from an ice sheet.