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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Pickwick Island (GBR) | 65° 29' 00.0" S | 65° 38' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 110618
Place ID: 11241
largest of the Pitt Islands (q.v.), Biscoe Islands, following air photography by FIDASE in 1956, was named after Samuel Pickwick, Founder of the Pickwick Club, in association with other names from Pickwick papers in this group of islands (APC, 1959a, p.10; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Isla Pickwick (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.226). Isla Alférez Maveroff, so called by AAE after an ensign in the Argentine Navy (Argentina. MM chart H-772, 1964). |
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| Pickwick Island (USA) | 65° 29' 00.0" S | 65° 38' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 130118
Place ID: 11241
The largest of the Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Very roughly charted by the BGLE under Rymill, 1934-37. More accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the UK-APC in 1959 after Samuel Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. |
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| Pickwick, Isla (CHL) | 65° 30' 00.0" S | 65° 37' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 106093
Place ID: 11241
Este nombre figura por primera vez en una carta chilena del año 1962. Es la mayor de las islas Pitt, situada a unos 15 cables al N del cabo Tula, extremo NE de isla Renaud, en las islas Biscoe. Mide 5 millas de extensión, con una altura de 130 metros. |
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