Mount Queequeg

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Mount Queequeg (65°39′S, 62°8′W) is a conspicuous, partly snow-covered mountain with three conical summits, the highest 900 m, between the mouths of Starbuck and Stubb Glaciers on the east coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947, it was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 after Starbuck's harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

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