Mount Queequeg
| Mount Queequeg | ||
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| height | 905 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 39 '2 " S , 62 ° 6' 54" W | |
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Mount Queequeg is a striking and partly snow-covered mountain with three conical peaks up to 905 m high. It rises up between the estuaries of the Starbuck and Stubb glaciers on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
It was geodetically surveyed and photographed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after the harpooner Queequeg in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Mount Queequeg in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Queequeg on geographic.org (English)