Dragon Beach
| Dragon Beach | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Dragon Cove , McFarlane Strait | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 27 '58 " S , 60 ° 7' 42" W | |
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The Dragon Beach (English for kite beach ) is a wide beach made of gravel and boulders in the Dragon Cove at the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It reaches a height of up to 10 m . To the north it rises to the plateau of Williams Point , to the west to the flank of the Gargoyle Bastion . To the south it is limited by an ice ramp. The beach is largely interspersed with petrified wood .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the beach in 1998 based on the name of the bay of the same name. Whose namesake is the Dragon , a 1804 in Liverpool registered brig for the seal hunt , which operated from 1820 to 1821 in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.
Web links
- Dragon Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dragon Beach on geographic.org (English)