Jinks Island

Jinks Island (65°22′S 65°38′W / 65.367°S 65.633°W / -65.367; -65.633Coordinates: 65°22′S 65°38′W / 65.367°S 65.633°W / -65.367; -65.633) is an island lying 5 nautical miles (9 km) north of Pickwick Island, in the Pitt Islands of the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 after Mr. Jinks, a character in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers.[1]

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  1. ↑ "Jinks Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-07-25.

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