Daggoo Peak
| Daggoo Peak | ||
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| height | 905 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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 .
Web links
- Daggoo peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Daggoo Peak on geographic.org (English)