Camp Livingston (Antarctica)

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

Topographic map of Livingston Island with the bases and base camps on the island.

Camp Livingston (Spanish: Campamento Livingston, Campamento Científico Livingston) is an Argentine seasonal base camp on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

Location

The encampment is located at 62°39′22″S 61°00′39″W / 62.65611°S 61.01083°W / -62.65611; -61.01083 which is 500 m west-southwest of Negro Hill, 700 m north by east of Dometa Point, 4.63 km east by north of the Spanish Camp Byers and 4.38 km southeast of Chester Cone (detailed Spanish mapping of the area in 1992, Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

See also

• Byers Peninsula
• Livingston Island
• Antarctic field camps

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
• 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

• Salvador Alaimo. Argentine Antarctic Stations. 2010.
• Ivanov, L. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17-28. ISBN 978-954-07-3939-7