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Mansa Cove
Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Mansa Cove is located in Antarctic PeninsulaMansa CoveMansa CoveLocation of Mansa Cove on the Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates62°27′53″S 60°47′05″W / 62.46472°S 60.78472°W / -62.46472; -60.78472
TypeCove

Mansa Cove is the 450-metre-wide (1,480 ft) cove indenting for 300 metres (980 ft) the east coast of the small (2.6 by 1.6 kilometres ) ice-free promontory forming the north extremity of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and ending up in Cape Shirreff.

The feature was descriptively named by the 1984–85 Chilean Antarctic Expedition from the stillness of its waters (‘Quiet Bay’ in Spanish).

Location

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

The cove is centred at 62°27′53″S 60°47′05″W / 62.46472°S 60.78472°W / -62.46472; -60.78472 which is 680 metres (2,230 ft) of Cape Shirreff, 4.26 kilometres (2.65 mi) northwest of Black Point and 1.18 kilometres (0.73 mi) east by north of Rapa Nui Point (British mapping in 1968, detailed Chilean mapping in 2004, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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