Mount Fedallah

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Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Fedallah ( 65°43′S62°52′W / 65.717°S 62.867°W / -65.717; -62.867 Coordinates: 65°43′S62°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]

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Pip Cliffs

Pip Cliffs is a prominent rock cliffs, rising to about 1,250 m in southwestern Aristotle Mountains, 10 km west of Mount Fedallah and 3.5 km east of Peychinov Crag, on the north side of Flask Glacier on Oscar II Coast, Graham Land. In association with names from Melville's Moby Dick grouped in this area, named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1987 after Pip, the cabin boy of the Pequod.

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PD-icon.svg This article incorporates  public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Fedallah, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System ).

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