Ishmael Peak
| Ishmael Peak | ||
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| height | 600 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 53 '3 " S , 62 ° 24' 52" W | |
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The Ishmael Peak is a distinctive and free-standing rocky peaks of around 600 m height in Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6.5 km south of Spouter Peak , which in turn marks the northern flank of the mouth of the Leppard glacier .
It was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Ishmael, the protagonist and narrator in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Ishmael Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ishmael Peak on geographic.org (English)