Pitt Islands
The Pitt Islands are a group of small islands lying immediately off the north extremity of Renaud Island, at the north end of the Biscoe Islands. The name "Pitt's Island," after William Pitt the Younger, the British prime minister, was applied by John Biscoe in 1832 to an island which he erroneously charted as lying about 25 miles West North West of these islands.Places of Interest
Highlights include Snodgrass Island and Krivus Island.
Snodgrass Island
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.
Krivus Island
Islet
Krivus Island is the mostly ice-covered island on the east side of Johannessen Harbour in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The feature extends 920 m in north-south direction and 1.06 km in east-west direction.
Vaugondy Island
Island
Vaugondy Island is a mostly ice-covered island on the northeast side of Johannessen Harbour in the Pitt group of Biscoe Islands, Antarctica. The feature extends 1.85 km in north-south direction and 1.68 km in east-west. Vaugondy Island is situated 4 km northeast of Pitt Islands.
Pitt Islands
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pitt Islands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pitt Islands”
- Chinese: “皮特群岛”
- Chinese: “皮特群島”
- Dutch: “Pitt Islands”
- French: “îles Pitt”
- French: “Îles Pitt”
- German: “Pitt-Inseln”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pitt Islands”
- Spanish: “Avellaneda, islas”
- Spanish: “Islas Avellaneda”
- Spanish: “Islas Pitt”
- Spanish: “Pitt, Islas”
- Swedish: “Pitt Islands”
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