Dickens Rocks
| Dickens Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| archipelago | Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 18 ′ S , 65 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 2 | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Dickens Rocks are two reef rocks west of the Antarctic Peninsula . They are located at the northern end of the Pitt Islands group belonging to the Biscoe Islands archipelago .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the rocks using aerial photographs from Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after the British writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870), after whose characters in the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) numerous other objects in the area are named.
Web links
- Dickens Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dickens Rocks on geographic.org (English)