Whitewhale Bastion (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Whitewhale Bastion (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Buttress (2f)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A prominent L-shaped mass that arises to nearly 1,200 m and dominates Starbuck Glacier, 10 mi from its terminus on the east side of Graham Land. Its east face consists of walls of white granite, hence the name, one of several in the vicinity applied by UK-APC in association with Herman Melville's whaling novel, Moby Dick.
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