Mount Mayhew
| Mount Mayhew | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Aristotle Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 34 '52 " S , 62 ° 25' 25" W | |
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Mount Mayhew is a 1200 m high mountain not far from the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises in the Aristotle Mountains between the Pequod and Starbuck glaciers and is the highest peak of the Taridin Ridge . While its southwest flank is rocky and very steep, its northeast side is snow-covered.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Captain Mayew, the ship's master of the Jeroboam in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Mount Mayhew in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Mayhew on geographic.org (English)