Peleg Peak
| Peleg Peak | ||
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| height | 920 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 50 '15 " S , 62 ° 33' 5" W | |
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The Peleg peak is 920 m high and rocky mountain peaks at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 6 km northwest of Ishmael Peak from a massif between the Flask and Leppard glaciers .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1955. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1957 after Captain Peleg, co-owner of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Peleg Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peleg Peak on geographic.org (English)