Pickwick Island
| Pickwick Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 30 ′ S , 65 ° 38 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Pickwick Island is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is the largest of the Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands archipelago .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill made a rough map of the island. It is better represented on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Samuel Pickwick, the main character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Pickwick Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pickwick Island on geographic.org (English)