Jingle Island
| Jingle Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 25 ′ 20 ″ S , 65 ° 18 ′ 53 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Jingle Island is a 2.5 km long island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 1.5 km northeast of Weller Island .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 were used for mapping purposes by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Alfred Jingle, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Jingle Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jingle Island on geographic.org (English)