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Slumkey Island
Slumkey
Island
is the
largest island
of the group
lying
east
of
Tupman Island
,
Pitt Islands
, in the
Biscoe Islands
,
Antarctica
. It is separated from
neighbouring
Kereka Island
to the
east-northeast
by an 80 m
wide
passage
.
The island
was first accurately shown on an
Argentine government
chart of 1957. Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
in
1959
after the
Honorable Samuel Slumkey
, a
character
in
Charles
Dickens'
Pickwick Papers
.