Weller Island
| Weller Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 27 ′ S , 65 ° 23 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Weller Island is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it lies east of Snodgrass 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 Samuel Weller, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Weller Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Weller Island on geographic.org (English)