Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.
Melville Glacier ( WikiMiniAtlas65°28′S 62°10′W / 65.467°S 62.167°W / -65.467; -62.167 Coordinates : 65°28′S 62°10′W / 65.467°S 62.167°W / -65.467; -62.167 ) is a glacier , 12 nautical miles (22 km) long, between Mapple Glacier and Pequod Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land , Antarctica . It flows eastwards between Stevrek Ridge and Parlichev Ridge in the Aristotle Mountains , to enter Domlyan Bay in the Weddell Sea . It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1955, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Herman Melville , the author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick . Several other features in the area, such as Mount Ahab , are named after characters in the story.[1]
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^ "Melville Glacier" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2013-09-17 .
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Glaciers in the Antarctic
Glaciers of Graham Land
Antarctic Peninsula Adelaide Island
Horton Glacier
Hurley Glacier
Shambles Glacier
Sheldon Glacier
Sloman Glacier
Turner Glacier
James Ross Island
Ball Glacier
Coley Glacier
Gourdon Glacier
Hobbs Glacier
Howarth Glacier
Ineson Glacier
Swift Glacier
Tait Glacier
Palmer Archipelago Trinity Peninsula
Herman Melville (works)
Novels
Typee (1846)
Omoo (1847)
Mardi (1849)
Redburn (1849)
White-Jacket (1850)
Moby-Dick (1851)
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852)
Israel Potter (1855)
The Confidence-Man (1857)
Billy Budd (1924, posthumous)
Short stories
The Piazza Tales (1856)
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener "
"Benito Cereno "
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"The Encantadas "
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Uncollected Published posthumously
Poetry Essays
"Hawthorne and His Mosses " (1850)
Possible Related
Herman Melville House (Troy, New York)
Arrowhead (Herman Melville House)
Herman Melville Memorial Room archives
Herman Melville bibliography
Melville crater
Melville Glacier