Robbery Beaches

Robbery Beaches are beaches extending along the north side of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Essex Point to the west and Nedelya Point to the east.

It arose from the English robbery of sealskins collected by the American brig Charity (Capt.

There was fierce competition between British and American sealers in the area during the early 1820s.

Robbery Beaches are part of the mise-en-scène in the Antarctica thriller novel The Killing Ship authored by Elizabeth Cruwys and Beau Riffenburgh under their joint alias Simon Beaufort in 2016, and are shown on a sketch map of Livingston Island illustrating the book.

[1][2] This article incorporates public domain material from "Robbery Beaches".

Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Robbery Beaches and Barclay Bay from near Basalt Lake on Byers Peninsula , Livingston Island , with left to right Lair Point , Frederick Rocks , Cutler Stack , Nedelya Point and the northern part of Urvich Wall in the middle ground, and Cape Shirreff and Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula in the right background