Jingle Island

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
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates65°23′S 65°18′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

See also
  • List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References
  1. "Jingle Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-25.

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