geo.wikisort.org - Island

Jinks Island (65°22′S 65°38′W) is an island lying 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Pickwick Island, in the Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Mr. Jinks, 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: "Jinks Island". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

На других языках

---

[de] Jinks Island

Jinks Island ist eine Insel vor der Westküste der Antarktischen Halbinsel. In der Gruppe der Pitt-Inseln des Archipels der Biscoe-Inseln liegt sie 8 km nördlich von Pickwick Island.

---

- [en] Jinks Island

---

---