Mount Ahab
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Mount Ahab () is a conspicuous mountain (925 m) that rises between the lower ends of Mapple and Melville Glaciers on the east coast of Graham Land. The mountain was roughly surveyed in 1947 by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and was resurveyed in 1955. The name was repositioned following a survey by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in 1962. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Captain Ahab of the whaler Pequod, the central character in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
This article incorporates text from Mount Ahab, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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