Jeroboam Glacier
| Jeroboam Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 37 ′ S , 62 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Starbuck Glacier | |
The Jeroboam Glacier is a glacier near the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows in a south-westerly direction to the Starbuck Glacier , which it reaches immediately east of Gabriel Peak .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1977 after the whaler Jeroboam in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Jeroboam Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jeroboam Glacier on geographic.org (English)