Byers Peninsula

Byers Peninsula

Byers Peninsula (coord|62|38|S|61|05|W|) is an ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 for James Byers, a New York shipowner who tried unsuccessfully in August 1820 to induce the United States Government to found a settlement in and take possession of the South Shetland Islands. Byers organized and sent out a fleet of American sealers from New York to the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

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* L.L. Ivanov et al, (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005


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