Snodgrass Island
| Snodgrass Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 26 '35 " S , 65 ° 28' 22" W | |
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| length | 4 km | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Snodgrass Island is a 4 km long island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it lies northeast of Pickwick Island .
It is recorded for the first time on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Augustus Snodgrass, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Snodgrass Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Snodgrass Island on geographic.org (English)