Sawyer Island

Sawyer Island is an island 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) long lying north 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-APC) in 1959 after Robert Sawyer, one of the central characters in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers.

Location of Sawyer Island

See also

• List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Sawyer Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  (65°26′S 65°32′W)