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Yamana Beach () is an ice-free beach extending ca. on the west coast of Cape Shirreff in the north extremity of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula,

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. It is surmounted by Toqui Hill on the east. The beach is part of

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''ASPA 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island''. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 ...

. The name was given by scientific personnel of the

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in 1985, in connection with Daniel Torres Navarro who discovered the skull of a young indigenous Yamana woman. According to research, she was in her early 20s, and she might had died around 1819 to 1825 on a sealing mission, making hers the oldest known human remains on Antarctic soil.

Location

Yamana Beach is centred at . Chilean mapping in 2004, Bulgarian in 2017.

Maps

Map 3. Cape Shirreff, ASPA No. 149.
Instituto Antártico Chileno, April 2004 * L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Sources

Beaches of Livingston Island Yaghan 1985 archaeological discoveries 1985 in Antarctica {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub