Trundle Island
| Trundle Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands ( Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 24 ′ S , 65 ° 17 ′ W | |
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Trundle Island is an island in the Biscoe Islands archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Pitt Islands group , it is 1.5 km northeast of Jingle Island .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1956 were used for mapping purposes by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after Mr. Trundle, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Trundle Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Trundle Island on geographic.org (English)