Slumkey Island
Location of Biscoe Islands in the Antarctic Peninsula region.
Slumkey Island (65°30′S 65°28′W / 65.500°S 65.467°WCoordinates: 65°30′S 65°28′W / 65.500°S 65.467°W) is the largest island of the group lying east of Tupman Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is separated from neighbouring Kereka Island to the east-northeast by an 80 m wide passage.
The island was first accurately shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after the , a character in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers.
See also[]
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Slumkey Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)
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- Islands of the Biscoe Islands
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