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Fizkin Island
Fizkin
Island
is an
island
lying
southeast
of
Pickwick Island
and
900
m southeast of
Arrowsmith Island
,
Pitt Islands
in the
Biscoe Islands
,
Antarctica
.
The island
was shown on an
Argentine government
chart of 1957, and named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
after
Horatio
Fizkin,
Esquire
, a
character
in
Charles
Dickens'
The
Pickwick Papers
.