Tashtego Point
| Tashtego Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 44 ′ S , 62 ° 8 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Oskar II coast | |
| Waters | Scar Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Stubb Glacier | |
The Tashtego Point is a rocky headland on the Oscar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies at the end of a ridge on the south side of the mouth of the Stubb Glacier in the Scar Inlet .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped and photographed them in 1947. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1957 after the harpooner Tashtego in Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- Tashtego Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tashtego Point on geographic.org (English)