Tashtego Point
Tashtego Point ({{coord|65|44|S|62|9|W|display=inline,title}}) 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 in Antarctica. 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.
Further reading
- Defense Mapping Agency 1992, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sgSnbMOD_VsC&pg=PA448 Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica], P 276
References
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External links
- [https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:0::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:15008 Tashtego Point] on USGS website
- [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=132488 Tashtego Point] on AADC website
- [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/search_names_action.cfm?search_text=14441&feature_type_code=0&country_id=0&relic_options=include_relics&north=-45.0&south=-90.0&west=-180.0&east=180.0&search_near=&radius=0.5&gazetteers=SCAR Tashtego Point] on SCAR website
- [http://www.marineregions.org/gazetteer.php?p=details&id=10940 Tashtego Point] on marineregions.org
- [https://mapcarta.com/25598626 Tashtego Point area map]
Category:Headlands of Graham Land
Category:Place names inspired by Moby-Dick
Category:Aquinnah, Massachusetts
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