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Tashtego Point (65°44′S 62°9′W) 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 in Antarctica. Surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Tashtego, the Wampanoag harpooner on the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.

Further reading

• Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 276

References

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

External links

• Tashtego Point on USGS website
• Tashtego Point on AADC website
• Tashtego Point on SCAR website
• Tashtego Point on marineregions.org
• Tashtego Point area map

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Der Tashtego Point ist eine felsige Landspitze an der Oskar-II.-Küste des Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Sie liegt am Ende eines Bergkamms auf der Südseite der Mündung des Stubb-Gletschers in das Scar Inlet.

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