Spermwhale Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 47 ′ S , 62 ° 52 ′ W | |
Spermwhale Ridge (English for Pottwalgrat ) is a scharfgratiger and about 800 m high ridge at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flanks the south side of the Flask Glacier to the west of the Bulkington Pass .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1987 based on the naming of other objects in the area, which are named after characters from Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick , published in 1851 .
Web links
- Spermwhale Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spermwhale Ridge on geographic.org (English)