Spouter Peak

Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Spouter Peak (65°49′S 62°23′W / 65.817°S 62.383°W / -65.817; -62.383Coordinates: 65°49′S 62°23′W / 65.817°S 62.383°W / -65.817; -62.383) is a conspicuous rock peak, 615 m, standing in eastern Voden Heights 4.5 nautical miles (8 km) south-southwest of Daggoo Peak at the south side of the mouth of Flask Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and partially photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 after the Spouter Inn, New Bedford, where Herman Melville's story Moby-Dick opens.

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