Ishmael Peak is a conspicuous detached rock peak

Summit (topography)

In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

, 4 miles (6 km) south of Spouter Peak

Spouter Peak

Spouter Peak is a conspicuous rock peak, 615 m, standing 4.5 nautical miles 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 in 1947...

, which marks the north side of the mouth of Leppard Glacier

Leppard Glacier

Leppard Glacier is a large valley glacier draining east into Scar Inlet, to the north of Ishmael Peak, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. First seen from the air and photographed in part by Hubert Wilkins on December 20, 1928, the glacier was surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies...

, on the east coast 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 by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947 and 1955. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the narrator of 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 story Moby Dick.