Pippin Peaks
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 39 ′ S , 62 ° 29 ′ W | |
The Pippin Peaks are an east-west oriented series of 880 to 1600 m high mountains made of white to pink granite on the Oskar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . They rise up at the western end of the Stubb Glacier and form part of its north face there.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1987 after the cabin boy Pippin (also known as Pip) in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Pippin Peaks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pippin Peaks on geographic.org (English)