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Shirreff Cove

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Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands featuring Shirreff Cove
Topographic map of Livingston Island

Shirreff Cove (62°28′S 60°48′W / 62.467°S 60.800°W / -62.467; -60.800) is a small cove or anchorage, situated immediately southwest of Cape Shirreff between San Telmo Island and Gerlovo Beach on the northwest side of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, named a cove in this vicinity for Captain William H. Shirreff, British commanding officer in the Pacific in 1820. Present application of the name is based upon the location shown on Captain George Powell's map, published by Laurie in 1822.

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