Moby Dick Icefall
Moby Dick Icefall 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.Moby Dick Icefall
- Type: Water
- Description: icefall in the South Shetland Islands near Antarctica
- Categories: icefall and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Moby Dick Icefall” goes by many names.
- German: “Moby-Dick-Eisfall”
- Hebrew: “מובי דיק (מפל קרח)”
- Hebrew: “מפל הקרח מובי דיק”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Moby Dick Icefall”
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Highlights include Jenny Buttress and Destruction Bay.
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