Nupkins Island is an island lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) west of Sawyer 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) after George Nupkins, Esquire, the principal magistrate in Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers.
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65°26′S 65°41′W / 65.433°S 65.683°W
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