Pip Cliffs

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Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula. Ant-pen-map-Aristotle.PNG — Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Pip Cliffs ( 65°43′S63°1′W / 65.717°S 63.017°W / -65.717; -63.017 Coordinates: 65°43′S63°1′W / 65.717°S 63.017°W / -65.717; -63.017 ) 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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Aristotle Mountains is the fan-shaped sequence of ridges spreading east-northeastwards from its summit Madrid Dome on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. The feature is named after the ancient Greek scientist Aristotle who in his book Meteorology dated c. 350 BC was the first to conjecture the existence of a landmass in the southern high-latitude region, calling it Antarctica.

Mount Fedallah 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.

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