Dickens Rocks

Dickens Rocks (65°19′S 65°23′W / 65.317°S 65.383°W / -65.317; -65.383) is a two rocks lying at the north end of the Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Charles Dickens (1812–70), English novelist. A number of other features in the Pitt Islands are named after characters in his Pickwick Papers.

See also

• Southwind Passage

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

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