Whitewhale Bastion
| Whitewhale Bastion | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 37 '25 " S , 62 ° 29' 50" W | |
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Whitewhale Bastion (from English white whale 'white whale' and English bastion 'bastion, bulwark' ) is a striking, L- shaped and almost 1200 m high mountain range in Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 16 km west of the mouth of the Starbuck Glacier on the Oskar II coast into the Scar Inlet . The east side is made of white granite .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1976 based on the naming of other geographical objects in the area, which are named after characters from Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick .
Web links
- White Whale Bastion in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whitewhale Bastion on geographic.org (English)