Mount Fedallah

Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Fedallah (65°43′S 62°52′W / 65.717°S 62.867°W / -65.717; -62.867Coordinates: 65°43′S 62°52′W / 65.717°S 62.867°W / -65.717; -62.867) is a mountain approximately 1,250 metres (4,100 ft) high, situated east of the Pip Cliffs, on the north side of Flask Glacier, in the south-east foothills of Madrid Dome in Aristotle Mountains, eastern Graham Land Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1987, after a crewman of the Pequod in association with other names from Moby-Dick in this area.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Fedallah, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-03-19.

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