Mentioned in Moby Dick

Connected Sites: 5

WHS (specific places that are clearly part of the core zone) which are mentioned in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. See this resource: https://mobydickgazetteer.org/index.php

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Connected Sites

Syracuse
Inscribed: 2005
3.53
308
8
".. That Still More Wonderful Story Of The Arethusa Fountain Near Syracuse (Whose Waters Were Believed To Have Come From The Holy Land By An Underground Passage); These Fabulous Narrations Are Almost Fully Equalled By The Realities Of The Whalemen." (P147)
Venice and its Lagoon
Inscribed: 1987
4.51
828
18
"So, Too, Venice; I Have Been There; The Holy City Of The Blessed Evangelist, St. Mark!—St. Dominic, Purge It!" (P196)
Québec
Québec
Canada
Inscribed: 1985
3.60
295
10
"The Brain Is At Least Twenty Feet From His Apparent Forehead In Life; It Is Hidden Away Behind Its Vast Outworks, Like The Innermost Citadel Within The Amplified Fortifications Of Quebec." (P63)
Pompei
Pompei
Italy
Inscribed: 1997
4.38
596
8
"In Various Enchanted Attitudes, Like The Standing, Or Stepping, Or Running Skeletons In Herculaneum, Others Remained Rooted To The Deck; But All Their Eyes Upcast." (P366)
Elephanta Caves
Inscribed: 1987
3.05
145
7
"Now, By All Odds, The Most Ancient Extant Portrait Anyways Purporting To Be The Whale’S, Is To Be Found In The Famous Cavern-Pagoda Of Elephanta, In India." (P. 205)