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Fizkin Island

Coordinates: 65°31′S 65°31′W / 65.517°S 65.517°W / -65.517; -65.517
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Location of Biscoe Islands in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Fizkin Island (65°31′S 65°31′W / 65.517°S 65.517°W / -65.517; -65.517) is an island lying 2.5 nautical miles (5 km) southeast of Pickwick Island and 900 m southeast of Arrowsmith Island, Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The island was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Horatio Fizkin, Esquire, a character in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers.[1]

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References

  1. ^ "Fizkin Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2012-03-26.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Fizkin Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


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