Snubbin Island
| Snubbin Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 29 ′ S , 65 ° 49 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Snubbin Island is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Pitt Islands belonging to the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is 3 km west of Pickwick Island . Buzfuz Rock is 2 km west of Snubbin Island .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after Mr. Serjeant Snubbin, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Snubbin Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Snubbin Island on geographic.org (English)