Tashtego Point
Tashtego Point (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).) is a rocky point marking the east end of the ridge at the south side of Stubb Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Tashtego, the Wampanoag harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 276
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Tashtego Point Archived 2020-06-13 at the Wayback Machine on USGS website
- Tashtego Point on AADC website
- Tashtego Point on SCAR website
- Tashtego Point on marineregions.org
- Tashtego Point area map