Chester Mountains
| Chester Mountains | ||
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ford Ranges | |
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| Coordinates | 76 ° 40 ′ S , 145 ° 35 ′ W | |
 Guest Peninsula map sheet from 1969 (reprinted 1988), Chester Mountains north of center of the southeast map district |
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The Chester Mountains are a group of mountains in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . They rise up in the Ford Ranges immediately north of the confluence of the Crevasse Valley Glacier in the Sulzberger Ice Shelf and 16 km north of Saunders Mountain .
The mountains were mapped during the second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . Name giver is Colby Mitchell Chester Jr. (1877-1965), managing director of the General Foods Corporation , which supported the research trip on a large scale.
Web links
- Chester Mountains in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Chester Mountains on geographic.org (English)