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Feature Name (see definition): Dickens Rocks Feature Class (see definition): Island Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica) Feature ID (see definition): 3844 Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 65° 19' 00" S Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 065° 23' 00" W Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.3166667 Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -65.3833333 Elevation (see definition): No data Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1965 Description (see definition): Two rocks lying at the N end of the Pitt Islands, in the Biscoe Islands. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956, and mapped from these photos by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist. A number of other features in the Pitt Islands are named after characters in his Pickwick Papers. Date Created (see definition): No data Date Edited (see definition): No data NOTE: The information regarding Dickens Rocks in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Dickens Rocks information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Dickens Rocks should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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