Spouter Peak

Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Spouter Peak (65°49′S 62°23′W / 65.817°S 62.383°W / -65.817; -62.383) is a conspicuous rock peak, 615 metres (2,018 ft), standing in eastern Voden Heights 4.5 nautical miles (8.3 km; 5.2 mi) south-southwest of Daggoo Peak at the south side of the mouth of Flask Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land, a portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. Surveyed and partially photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 after the Spouter Inn, New Bedford, where Herman Melville's story Moby-Dick opens.[1]

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