Spouter Peak is a conspicuous 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...

, 615 m, standing 4.5 nautical miles (8 km) south-southwest of Daggoo Peak

Daggoo Peak

Daggoo Peak is a rocky peak, 905 m, at the north side of the mouth of Flask Glacier, 5 nautical miles west-southwest of Tashtego Point on the east side of Graham Land. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947...

 at the south 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...

, 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 and partially photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1956 after the Spouter Inn, New Bedford

New Bedford

-Places:*New Bedford, Illinois*New Bedford, Massachusetts, the most populous New Bedford**New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park*New Bedford, New Jersey *New Bedford, Ohio*New Bedford, Pennsylvania...

, where 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

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,...

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