Dragon Cove is a 550 m wide cove indenting for 600 m the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula

Varna Peninsula

Varna Peninsula is a roughly rectangular predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, Livingston Island  in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica entered between Sigritsa Point

Sigritsa Point

Sigritsa Point is an ice-free point on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northwest side of the entrance to Dragon Cove...

 and Ficheto Point

Ficheto Point

Ficheto Point is an ice-free point on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Dragon Cove. Channel Rock is lying in the adjacent northwestern part of McFarlane Strait, northeast of Ficheto Point and south-southwest of...

. Surmounted by Sayer Nunatak

Sayer Nunatak

Sayer Nunatak is a rocky peak rising to 210 m south of Williams Point on Varna Peninsula, at the north edge of the ice cap of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 on the southwest. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers

Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

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The feature is named after the brig

Brig

A brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...

 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

Williams Point

Williams Point is the point forming both the north extremity of Varna Peninsula and the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 2.8 km southwest of Meade Islands

Meade Islands

Meade Islands is a group of two islands, the larger west one being Zverino Island and the smaller east one Cave Island, and rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Their surface areas are and . respectively...

 and 3.4 km northwest of Pomorie Point

Pomorie Point

Pomorie Point is a point on the coast of McFarlane Strait forming the north side of the entrance to Lister Cove, Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

 (British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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