Tashtego Point is a rocky point marking the east end of the ridge at the south side of Stubb Glacier

Stubb Glacier

Stubb Glacier is a glacier 11 nautical miles long, flowing east into Scar Inlet between Mount Queequeg and Tashtego Point, on the east coast of Graham Land. The lower reaches of this glacier were surveyed and photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947, and the upper reaches...

, 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 photographed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Stubb's harpooner on the Pequod in 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 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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