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Smiggers Island
Smiggers
Island
is an
island
lying
1
nautical mile
southeast of
Weller Island
,
Pitt Islands
, in the
Biscoe Islands
.
Photographed
by
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd
. in 1956, and mapped from these
photos
by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
after
Joseph Smiggers
, Esquire,
Perpetual Vice President
of the
Pickwick Club
in
Charles
Dickens'
Pickwick Papers
.