Griffin Cove
| Griffin Cove | ||
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 Griffin Cove between Williams Point (right) and Organpipe Point (center) |
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 ′ 8 ″ S , 60 ° 8 ′ 43 ″ W | |
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The Griffin Cove (English for grasping Bay ) is a small oval bay in the northeast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is bounded in the northeast by the Gargoyle Bastion , in the southeast by the Basilisk Crag and in the southwest by the headland Organpipe Point .
The bay is one of the geographical features in the Williams Point area that are named after mythical creatures. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (APC) named it in 1997 after the griffin .
Individual evidence
- ↑ British Antarctic Territory Gazetteer, https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk/ , accessed April 10, 2019
Web links
- Griffin Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Griffin Cove on geographic.org (English)