Spouter Peak

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Spouter Peak
height 615  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 65 ° 49 '12 "  S , 62 ° 23' 47"  W Coordinates: 65 ° 49 '12 "  S , 62 ° 23' 47"  W.
Spouter Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Spouter Peak

The Spouter Peak is a distinctive, 615  m high and rocky mountain peaks at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 7 km south-southwest of Daggoo Peak on the south side of the mouth of the Flask Glacier in the Scar Inlet .

It was geodetically surveyed and partly photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1956 after the Spouter Inn in New Bedford , a location in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .

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