New Plymouth (Livingston Island)

Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island.

New Plymouth is a bay bordered by an extensive line of beaches, lying south of Start Point and between Rugged Island and the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

This descriptive name, used by early sealers, dates back to at least 1822 and is now established in international usage.

Location

The bay is centred at 62°37′05.2″S 61°11′05″W / 62.618111°S 61.18472°W / -62.618111; -61.18472Coordinates: 62°37′05.2″S 61°11′05″W / 62.618111°S 61.18472°W / -62.618111; -61.18472 (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1993, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

• South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 5657. DOS 610 – W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
• Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
• 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
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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