Daggoo Peak

Daggoo Peak

Daggoo Peak (65°45′S 62°20′W / 65.75°S 62.333°W / -65.75; -62.333) is a rocky peak, 905 m, at the north side of the mouth of Flask Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) west-southwest of Tashtego Point on the east side of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 after Flask's harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick or The White Whale.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Daggoo Peak" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).