Dickens Rocks (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Dickens Rocks (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Rock
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising 7m above sea level, N of Pitt Islands, Biscoe Islands, were photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of characters in this area from his Pickwick papers, named after Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-70), English novelist (APC, 1959a, p.6; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Rocas Dickens (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.102). Dickens Rock, in error (BA, 1974, p.193).
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