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.- Water
- …lies at an elevation of around 110 metres (370 feet)
- Description: icefall in the South Shetland Islands near Antarctica
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-61.966° or 61° 57′ 58″ south
Longitude
-57.7° or 57° 42′ west
Open location code
38C427MX+HX
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Moby Dick Icefall” goes by many names.
מובי דיק (מפל קרח)Hebrew
מפל הקרח מובי דיקHebrew
Moby Dick IcefallNorwegian Nynorsk
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