Smiggers Island
| Smiggers Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands ( Biscoe Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 28 ′ S , 65 ° 21 ′ W | |
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Smiggers Island is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Pitt Islands it is 1.5 km southeast of Weller Island .
Running recordings from 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 Joseph Smiggers, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Smiggers Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Smiggers Island on geographic.org (English)