Livingston Island Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island of the South Shetland Islands
About Livingston Island
—log of Captain Fildes in 1821; he named the island. Early explorers believed an undiscovered continentTerra Australis Incognitalay in the far southern ocean. They pushed further and further south but by the 18th century were discouraged by reports from Captain Cook and his contemporaries that the far south was ice-bound. No prospect of sheep-farming here, still there might be whales or seals to hunt, or mineral wealth, or at least the chance to plant the flag on some desolate place, win jingoistic applause and snub rival nations. In the early 19th century several ships probed south of 60°S. Their problem was always to resolve what was ice, or an icy island, or an icy mainland, and to do so on a heaving deck in the sleet with simple instruments and a target socked in by fog. Several "islan
Top Attractions in Livingston Island
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- ★St Kliment Ohridski Base
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