Half Moon Beach (Livingston Island)

Half Moon Beach () is the 1 km crescent-shaped beach at the west extremity of Porlier Bay in the north of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Wreckage of the Spanish ship San Telmo that sunk off the island in 1819 was found subsequently on this beach.

The feature's name is descriptive, first recorded by Captain Robert Fildes who had sealers working here in 1820-21 and 1821-22.

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

Reference

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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