Tupman Island
| Tupman Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands ( Biscoe Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 29 ′ 18 ″ S , 65 ° 31 ′ 43 ″ W | |
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| length | 3 km | |
Tupman Island is a 3 km long island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Pitt Islands , it lies east 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 Tracy Tupman, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Tupman Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tupman Island on geographic.org (English)