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Yamana

Yamana Beach (Spanish: Playa Yamana) is an ice-free beach extending approximately 500 m (550 yd) on the west coast of Cape Shirreff at the northern extremity of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in Antarctica. It is surmounted by Toqui Hill on the east. The beach is part of Antarctic Sp

ecially Protected Area ASPA 149 Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. The name was given by scientific personnel of the Chilean Antarctic Institute 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.

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