Winkle Island
| Winkle Island | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Archipelago | Pitt Islands , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 31 ′ S , 65 ° 38 ′ W | |
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Winkle Island is an island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . As one of the Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands archipelago , it is located between Tula Point on Renaud Island and Pickwick Island .
It is first recorded on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after Nathaniel Winkle, a character from the serial novel The Pickwickier (1836-1837) by the British writer Charles Dickens .
Web links
- Winkle Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Winkle Island on geographic.org (English)