Sawyer Island (Antarctica)
| Sawyer Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands ( Biscoe Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 26 '14 " S , 65 ° 32' 2" W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
Sawyer Island is a 3 km long island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Pitt Islands group , it is north of Pickwick Island .
The island is first recorded on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Robert Sawyer, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Sawyer Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sawyer Island on geographic.org (English)