Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Jingle Island (GBR) | 65° 25' 00.0" S | 65° 19' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 109533
Place ID: 7141
one of the NE Pitt Islands (q.v.), Biscoe Islands, was roughly charted by AAE, 1954-55; photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of characters from Pickwick Papers in this area, named after Alfred Jingle, a strolling actor (APC, 1959a, p.8; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Isla Cabo Paredes, after Cabo 2do de Mar Paredes, sailor in the Argentine sloop-of-war Uruguay (Uruguay Cove, q.v.), 1904-05 (Pierrou, 1970, p.228). |
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| Jingle Island (USA) | 65° 23' 00.0" S | 65° 18' 00.0" W | Island |
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Name ID: 127103
Place ID: 7141
Island 1.5 mi long lying 1 mi NE of Weller Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956, and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. Named by the UK-APC in 1959 after Alfred Jingle, a strolling actor in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. |
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| Jingle, isla (ARG) | 65° 25' 00.0" S | 65° 19' 00.0" W | Island |
| Name ID: 101235 Place ID: 7141 | |||
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