Livingstone Island
[Fanning, Edmund] :Sealers' encampment at Byers Island, South Seas. New York, Endicott ...
Date: 1833
From: Fanning, Edmund :Voyages around the world. (New York, Collins & Hanray, 1833)
By: Fanning, Edmund, active 1820s-1830s; Endicott & Sweet, Lithographers
Reference: PUBL-0138-420
Description: A group of sealers on a beach, preparing fish and birds for a meal, around a cauldron over a fire. Others are approaching with fish speared on long poles. Seals can be seen in the distance across a stretch of water, either basking or dead. The large birds are upland geese (a bird still eaten on the Falkland Islands), the small ones 'flightless steamer ducks' according to Fanning's text. The location is somewhere to the south east of the Falkland Islands, possibly as far away as the South Shetland Islands. The location may also be the part of the Falkland Islands themselves Byers Island is not a current name. However Byers Peninsula is part of Livingstone Island, one of the South Shetland Islands in the South Atlantic, alongside the Antarctic Peninsula, in use by sealers from 1819. Fanning describes Byers Island as being south east of the Falkland Islands. The South Shetland Islands are south east of the Falkland Islands Extended Title - From: Fanning, Edmund. Voyages around the world. New York, 1833. opp. p. 420 Physical Description: Lithograph, 172 x 240 mm