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Fizkin Island (65°31′S 65°31′W) 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.[1]

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

 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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Fizkin Island ist eine Insel vor der Westküste der Antarktischen Halbinsel. In der Gruppe der Pitt-Inseln des Archipels der Biscoe-Inseln liegt sie 4 km südöstlich von Pickwick Island.

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