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Yamana Beach

Yamana Beach

Beach in Antarctica

Yamana Beach (Spanish: Playa Yamana is an ice-free beach extending ca. 500 m (550 yd) on the west coast of Cape Shirreff in the north extremity of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in Antarctica. It is surmounted by Toqui Hill on the east. The beach is part of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island.[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Topographic map of Livingston Island

The name was given by scientific personnel of the Chilean Antarctic Institute in 1985, in connection with Daniel Torres Navarro who discovered the skull of a young indigenous Yamana woman.[2] According to research, she was in her early 20s, and she might had died at around 1819 to 1825 on a sealing mission, making hers the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil.[3]

Location

Yamana Beach is centred at 62°28′08″S 60°47′53″W. Chilean mapping in 2004, Bulgarian in 2017.

Maps

Sources

  1. [1]
    Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island. Measure 2 (2005), Annex H, ATCM XXVIII Final Report. Stockholm, 2005
  2. [2]
    Playa Yamana. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
  3. [3]
    Henriques, Martha. "The bones that could shape Antarctica's fate". BBC Future. Retrieved 22 July 2021.


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