Snodgrass Island

Snodgrass Island
Pitt Islands (British Antarctic Territory)
Location
Location:	65°26’35"S, 65°28’22"W
Data

Snodgrass Island lies to the north-east of Pickwick Island, the largest of the Pitt Islands, a group within the Biscoe Islands group in the British Antarctic Territory.

The island was charted by an Argentine expedition in1954-55. It was re-charted and named following air photography 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 Augustus Snodgrass, member of the Pickwick Club.

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Snodgrass Island