Chapman snow field
| Chapman snow field | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 81 ° 30 ′ S , 157 ° 20 ′ E | |
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The Chapman Snowfield is a large snowfield in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . It lies on the west side of the main ridge of the Churchill Mountains . It is bounded to the north by Elder Peak and a massif towered over by Mount Wharton , to the south by the Soza Icefalls and the head end of the Starshot Glacier, and to the west by the Wallabies and All-Blacks Nunataks .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the snowfield in 2003 after William Hanell Chapman (1926-2007), topography engineer and cartographer of the United States Geological Survey , who was involved in large-scale surveying work in Antarctica .
Web links
- Chapman Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chapman Snowfield on geographic.org (English)