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Snodgrass Island
Snodgrass
Island
is an
island
2.5
nautical miles
long
lying
northeast
of
Pickwick Island
,
Pitt Islands
, in the
Biscoe Islands
. Shown on an
Argentine government
chart of 1957. It was named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
after the
fictional character
Augustus Snodgrass
, a member of the
Pickwick Club
in
Charles
Dickens'
The Pickwick Papers
.