Moby Dick Icefall
| Moby Dick Icefall | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 58 ′ S , 57 ° 42 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Destruction Bay | |
The Moby Dick Icefall ( Polish Lodowiec Moby Dicka ) is a glacial break on the east coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows into the head end of Destruction Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named him in 1981 after the famous white whale from Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Moby Dick Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Moby Dick Icefall on geographic.org (English)