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Mount Fedallah () is a mountain approximately high, situated east of the Pip Cliffs, on the north side of
Flask Glacier Flask Glacier (), is a gently-sloping glacier, long, flowing east from Bruce Plateau to enter Scar Inlet between Daggoo Peak and Spouter Peak in Graham Land, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the ...
, in the south-east foothills of Madrid Dome in
Aristotle Mountains Aristotle Mountains is the fan-shaped sequence of ridges spreading east-northeastwards from its summit Madrid Dome (1647 m) on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. The feature is named after the ancient Greek scientist Arist ...
, eastern
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...
Antarctica. It was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...
in 1987, after a crewman of the ''
Pequod Pequod or Pequot may refer to: *The Pequod, or Pequot, a Native American people of Connecticut * ''Pequod'' (''Moby-Dick''), a whaleship that appears in Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' * Pequod Glacier * Pequod Mountain, in British Colum ...
'' in association with other names from ''
Moby-Dick ''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 Epic (genre), epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael (Moby-Dick), Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Captain Ahab, Ahab, captain of the whaler ...
'' in this area.


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Mountains of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Place names inspired by Moby-Dick {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub