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Moby Dick Icefall

Coordinates: 61°58′S 57°42′W / 61.967°S 57.700°W / -61.967; -57.700
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Moby Dick Icefall (61°58′S 57°42′W / 61.967°S 57.700°W / -61.967; -57.700) is an icefall at the head of Destruction Bay, in the east of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition of 1981 after the famous white whale of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick.[1]

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  1. ^ "Moby Dick Icefall". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-10-28.

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