Pippin Peaks

Location of Aristotle Mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Pippin Peaks (65°39′S 62°28′W / 65.650°S 62.467°W / -65.650; -62.467Coordinates: 65°39′S 62°28′W / 65.650°S 62.467°W / -65.650; -62.467) is an east-west line of several Antarctic peaks ranging in height from 880 m to 1,160 m and formed of white or pink granite. The feature is situated in the southern Aristotle Mountains, at the west end of Stubb Glacier where it forms a part of the glacier's north wall, and is connected to Mount Sara Teodora to the west-southwest.

The name is one of several in this area applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Pippin being the shipkeeper in the Pequod who was cast adrift by Stubb.

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Pippin Peaks" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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