Mount Ahab
| Mount Ahab | ||
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| height | 925 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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Mount Ahab is a 925 m high and distinctive mountain on the Oscar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises between the lower sections of the Mapple and Melville glaciers .
It was geodetically surveyed in 1947 and again in 1955 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Mount Ahab in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ahab on geographic.org (English)