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Chester Cone

Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Chester Cone is the ice-free peak rising to 188 m in the central part of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Midge Lake to the northwest.

The peak is named after the American Captain Chester whose sealing ship Essex visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.

Location

The point is located at 62°38′11.3″S 61°05′05.5″W / 62.636472°S 61.084861°W / -62.636472; -61.084861 which is 8.56 km southeast of Start Point, 6.32 km northeast of Devils Point and 4.2 km west of Tsamblak Hill (British survey in 1957/58 and mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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