Pippin Peaks

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Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Pippin Peaks ( 65°39′S62°28′W / 65.650°S 62.467°W / -65.650; -62.467 ) is an east-west line of several Antarctic peaks ranging in height from 880 m to 1,160 m and formed of white or pink granite. The feature is situated in the southern Aristotle Mountains, at the west end of Stubb Glacier where it forms a part of the glacier's north wall, and is connected to Mount Sara Teodora to the west-southwest.

The name is one of several in this area applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Pippin being the shipkeeper in the Pequod who was cast adrift by Stubb.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cachalot Peak</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mount Sara Teodora</span> Mountain in Graham Land, Antarctica

Mount Sara Teodora is the broad ice-covered peak rising to 1389 m in Aristotle Mountains on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. It is situated in the southeast foothills of Madrid Dome, with its ice cap draining towards Starbuck Glacier to the northeast, Stubb Glacier to the east, Ambergris Glacier to the south, and Belogradchik Glacier to the southwest. The lower rocky ridges of Pippin Peaks, Chintulov and Valkosel spread out to the east-northeast, southeast and south direction respectively.

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