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Dragon Cove is a 550 m wide cove indenting for 600 m the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica entered between Sigritsa Point and Ficheto Point. Surmounted by Sayer Nunatak on the southwest. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is named after the brig Dragon (Captain McFarlane) of Liverpool, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21.
Location
The cove's midpoint is located at 62°28′07″S 60°07′16″W which is 2 km south-southeast of Williams Point, 2.8 km southwest of Meade Islands and 3.4 km northwest of Pomorie Point (British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
See also
Varna Peninsula
Livingston Island
Maps
L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
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