Half Moon Beach

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

Half Moon Beach (62°28′49″S 60°46′40″W) is a small crescent-shaped beach lying 1 nautical mile (2 km) southeast of Scarborough Castle on the north coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The beach lieas at the western extremity of Porlier Bay in the north of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula. The descriptive name was recorded by Robert Fildes, who had sealers working here in 1820–21 and 1821–22.

Wreckage of the Spanish ship San Telmo that sunk off the island in 1819 was found subsequently on this beach.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Half Moon Beach" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).