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Slumkey Island () is the largest island of the group lying east of
Tupman Island Tupman Island () is an island 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) long lying east of Pickwick Island, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Shown on an Argentine government chart of 1957. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK- ...
, Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is separated from neighbouring
Kereka Island Kereka Island ( bg, остров Керека, ostrov Kereka, ) is a mostly ice-covered island in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. It is 1.75 km long in southeast-northwest direction and 580 m wide, and is separated from neig ...
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 (UK-APC) in 1959 after the Honorable Samuel Slumkey, a character in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers.


See also

* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands Islands of the Biscoe Islands {{Biscoes-geo-stub