Daggoo Peak

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Daggoo Peak
height 905  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 65 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 62 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 65 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 62 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  W
Daggoo Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Daggoo Peak

The Daggoo peak is 905  m high and rocky mountain peaks at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 8 km west-southwest of Tashtego Point on the north side of the confluence of the Flask Glacier in the Scar Inlet .

It was geodetically surveyed and photographed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after the harpooner Daggoo in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .

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