Daggoo Peak
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Daggoo Peak is a rocky peak, 905 m, at the north side of the mouth of Flask Glacier
Flask Glacier
Flask Glacier , is a gently-sloping glacier, 25 miles long, flowing east from Bruce Plateau to enter Scar Inlet between Daggoo and Spouter Peaks in Graham Land, Antarctica. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947...

, 5 nautical miles (9 km) west-southwest of Tashtego Point
Tashtego Point
Tashtego Point is a rocky point marking the east end of the ridge at the south side of Stubb Glacier, on the east coast of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Stubb's...

 on the east side of Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. 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
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....

's Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...

 or The White Whale.
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