Melville Glacier

Coordinates: 65°28′S 62°10′W / 65.467°S 62.167°W / -65.467; -62.167
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This article is about the glacier in Antarctica. For the glacier in Greenland, see Melville Glacier (Greenland).
Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Melville Glacier (65°28′S 62°10′W / 65.467°S 62.167°W / -65.467; -62.167) is a

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and 1955, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Herman Melville, the author of the 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Several other features in the area, such as Mount Ahab, are named after characters in the story.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Melville Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-09-17.

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