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Gabriel Peak (Antarctica)

Coordinates: 65°36′S 62°39′W / 65.600°S 62.650°W / -65.600; -62.650
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Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Gabriel Peak (65°36′S 62°39′W / 65.600°S 62.650°W / -65.600; -62.650) is a peak, 1,220 metres (4,000 ft) high, at the confluence of Starbuck Glacier and Jeroboam Glacier in Aristotle Mountains on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica. The name is one of several in the vicinity applied by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Gabriel being a crewman of the ship Jeroboam.[1][2]

References

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  1. ^ "Gabriel Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
  2. ^ Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 263. Retrieved 2012-04-05.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Gabriel Peak (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

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