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Fizkin Island


Fizkin Island (65°31′S 65°31′W / 65.517°S 65.517°W / -65.517; -65.517Coordinates: 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.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Fizkin Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).


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