Griffin Cove

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Location of Varna Peninsula in the South Shetland Islands. Varna-Peninsula-location-map.png
Location of Varna Peninsula in the South Shetland Islands.
Griffin Cove (third left) from Miziya Peak, with Williams Point and Zed Islands in the background. Williams-Point.jpg
Griffin Cove (third left) from Miziya Peak, with Williams Point and Zed Islands in the background.

Griffin Cove is the 800 m wide cove indenting for 260 m the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Gargoyle Bastion to the northeast and Organpipe Point to the southwest.

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The feature is named after the griffin, a legendary bird often portrayed as a monster.

Location

The cove is centred at 62°28′09.1″S60°08′40.4″W / 62.469194°S 60.144556°W / -62.469194; -60.144556 which is 17.15 km northeast of Siddins Point and 1.95 km south by west of Williams Point (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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