Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Pippin Peaks (GBR) | 65° 39' 00.0" S | 62° 28' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 110639
Place ID: 11312
rising to 1160m between Starbuck Glacier and Stubb Glacier, Oscar II Coast, were surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in 1961; in association with names from Moby Dick or the whale in this area, named after Pippin, the shipkeeper in Pequod who was cast adrift by Stubb, the Second Mate (APC, 1977, p.26). |
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| Pippin Peaks (USA) | 65° 39' 00.0" S | 62° 28' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 130168
Place ID: 11312
An E-W line of several peaks ranging in height from 880 m to 1,160 m and formed of white or pink granite. The feature is located at the W end of Stubb Glacier where it forms a part of the glacier's N wall. The name is one of several in this area applied by UK-APC from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Pippin being the shipkeeper in the Pequod who was cast adrift by Stubb. |
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