Gabriel Peak
| Gabriel Peak | ||
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| height | 1220 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 36 ′ 1 ″ S , 62 ° 37 ′ 44 ″ W | |
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The Gabriel Peak is a 1,220 m high mountain near the Oscar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises at the confluence of the Jeroboam Glacier with the Starbuck Glacier .
It was geodetically surveyed and photographed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 after Dick Gabriel, a member of the crew on the whaler Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Gabriel Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gabriel Peak on geographic.org (English)