Tashtego Point
Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.
Tashtego Point (65°44′S 62°9′W / 65.733°S 62.150°WCoordinates: 65°44′S 62°9′W / 65.733°S 62.150°W) 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. 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.
WikiMiniAtlasFurther reading[]
- Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 276
External links[]
- Tashtego Point on USGS website
- Tashtego Point on AADC website
- Tashtego Point on SCAR website
- Tashtego Point on marineregions.org
- Tashtego Point area map
References[]
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Tashtego Point". (content from the Geographic Names Information System) 
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- Headlands of Graham Land
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- Moby-Dick
- Wampanoag tribe
- Whaling
- Herman Melville
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