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Jingle Island is an island 3 km (1.5 nmi) long lying 2 km (1 nmi) northeast of Weller Island, in the Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Alfred Jingle, a strolling actor in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers.[1]

Jingle Islands

Jingle Islands Location in Antarctica
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	65°23′S 65°18′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	Uninhabited

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

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

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[de] Jingle Island

Jingle Island ist eine 2,5 km lange Insel vor der Westküste der Antarktischen Halbinsel. In der Gruppe der Pitt-Inseln des Archipels der Biscoe-Inseln liegt sie 1,5 km nordöstlich von Weller Island.

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