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Tashtego Point
Tashtego
Point
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
.
Surveyed
and
photographed
by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
in
1947
. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
after Tashtego, the
Wampanoag
harpooner
on the
Pequod
in Herman
Melville's
Moby-Dick
.