Captain Ahab
| Captain Ahab | ||
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| Waters | Destruction Bay | |
| Archipelago | South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 0 ′ S , 57 ° 36 ′ W | |
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Captain Ahab ( English ; Polish Kapitan Ahab 'Captain Ahab' ) is a distinctive surf pillar from basaltic dykes in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It projects southeast of Trowbridge Iceland in Destruction Bay of King George Iceland on.
Polish scientists named it in 1984 after the captain of the whaler Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Captain Ahab in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)