Pip cliffs
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 43 ′ S , 63 ° 1 ′ W | |
The Pip cliffs are striking and up to 1250 m high cliffs on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They tower west of Mount Fedallah on the northern flank of the Flask Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1987 after the cabin boy Pip in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Pip Cliffs in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pip Cliffs on geographic.org (English)