High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robbery Beaches (62°37?S 61°05?W? / ?62.617°S 61.083°W? / -62.617; -61.083) are beaches extending along the north side of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. The name ‘Robbery Beach' was used by James Weddell in 1820-23. It arose from the English robbery of sealskins collected by the American brig Charity (Capt. Charles H. Barnard) of New York in January 1821. There was fierce competition between British and American sealers in the area during the early 1820s. James Weddell (Ostend, August 24, 1787 – September 9, 1834) was an English sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in the early Spring of 1823 sailed to latitude of 74°15' S (a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle) and into a region of the Southern Ocean that would later become known as the Weddell Sea.

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