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Peleg Peak: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Peleg Peak in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Peleg Peak

Feature Class (see definition): Summit

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 11524

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 65° 51' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 062° 33' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.85

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -62.55

Elevation (see definition): 920

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1963

Description (see definition): A rock peak (920 m) on the massif between Flask Glacier and Leppard Glacier on the E coast of Graham Land. It stands 4 mi NW of Ishmael Peak. Surveyed by Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955. Named by UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) after Captain Peleg, part-owner of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Peleg Peak in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Peleg Peak information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Peleg Peak should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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