Sawyer Island
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| Location: | 65°26’14"S, 65°32’2"W |
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Sawyer Island is an island two miles long amongst the Pitt Islands, a group within the Biscoe Islands group in the British Antarctic Territory. It lies tothe north of Pickwick Island.
The island was roughly charted by an Argentine expedition in 1954-55 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.
As with other names amongst the Pitt Islands, this island is named after character in the Pickwick Papers; after Robert Sawyer, a medical student.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Sawyer Island