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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| Daggoo Peak (GBR) | 65° 45' 00.0" S | 62° 20' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 108404
Place ID: 3247
rising to 900m on N side of Scar Inlet, Oscar II Coast, was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay" in December 1947; in association with the names of characters from Moby Dick in this area, named after Daggoo, Flask's harpooner in Pequod (APC, 1958, p.4; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961); further surveyed by BAS from "Stonington Island" in 1963-64. |
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| Daggoo Peak (USA) | 65° 45' 00.0" S | 62° 20' 00.0" W | Peak |
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Name ID: 124041
Place ID: 3247
Rocky peak, 905 m, at the N side of the mouth of Flask Glacier, 5 mi WSW of Tashtego Point on the E side of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the FIDS in 1947. Named by the UK-APC in 1956 after Flask's harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick or The White Whale. |
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