Mount Mayhew is a peak

Summit (topography)

In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

, 1,200 m, between Pequod and Starbuck Glaciers on the east side 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...

. The southwest face of the peak is rocky and very steep, while the northeast face is snow covered. The name is one of several in the vicinity applied by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) from 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, Mayhew being the captain of the Jeroboam.