James Byers

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James Byers was an American shipowner, merchant and sealer in New York, originally from Springfield, Massachusetts. [1]

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Byers sent a four-vessel sealing fleet to the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21. He also lobbied US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and President James Monroe to send a warship and take possession of the islands, suggesting that the American sealers were prepared to establish a permanent settlement there.

Honor

Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands is named after James Byers.

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  1. ↑ "The First American Discoveries in the Antarctic, 1819" . The American Historical Review. 16 (4): 794–798. 1911. doi:10.2307/1835710. ISSN   0002-8762.
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