GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



CHESTER MOUNTAINS: group of mountains of 

 the Edsel Ford Ranges, lying in a distinctive arc 

 about 10 mi. SSE. of Mt. Iphigene, in Marie Byrd 

 Land; in about 76°37'S., 145°35'W. Charted by the 

 ByrdAE, 1933-35, and named for Colby M. Chester, 

 then pres. of General Foods Corporation, who gave 

 generous support to the Byrd expeditions. 



CHETWYND, MOUNT: a massif capped by black 

 rock, about 5,000 ft. in el., lying about 3 mi. SW. of 

 Mt. Gauss on the S. side of Mawson Gl., in the 

 Prince Albert Mtns., Victoria Land; in about 

 76°23'S., 162°13'E. Disc, and named by the BrNAE 

 under Scott, 1901-4. 



CHEVREUX, MOUNT: mountain about 5,300 ft. 

 in el., which lies about 4 mi. E. of Leroux Bay on 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°40'S., 64°00'W. 

 Disc, by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, who 

 named it for fidouard Chevreux, French zoologist. 



CHICK ISLET: isolated rocky islet about 4 mi. 

 ENE. of Baldwin Pt., lying immediately off the E. 

 end of Sabrina Coast; in about 66°35'S., 121°15'E. 

 Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN 

 Op. Hjp., 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN 

 for Amos Chick, carpenter on the sloop of war 

 Vincennes of the USEE under Wilkes, 1838-42. 



CHILD, CAPE: northward projection of the front 

 of Amery Ice Shelf, separating Evans Bay and 

 Thorshavn Bay along Lars Christensen Coast; in 

 about 68°40'S., 71°35'E. Disc, by the BANZARE, 

 under Mawson, during a flight over MacKenzie Bay 

 on Feb. 10, 1931. Probably named for J. B. Child, 

 third officer on the Discovery. 



CHOCOLATE, CAPE: seaward end of the lateral 

 moraine bordering the W. wall of the Koettlitz Gl., 

 along the coast of southern Victoria Land; in about 

 77°58'S., 164°37'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, 

 under Scott, who so named it because of the color 

 of the morainic material. 



CHOLET ISLET: islet which lies about 50 yards 

 N. of the small peninsula forming the SW. shore 

 of Port Charcot and the NW. extremity of Booth I., 

 off the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°03'S., 

 64°02'W. Disc, by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, 

 who named it for Ernest Cholet, skipper of the 

 exp. ship Frangais, and later the Pourquoi-Pas? . 

 Not adopted: Cholet Island, Cholet Isle. 



CHOYCE, CAPE: rocky bluff, about 3,000 ft. in 

 el., at the N. side of the entrance to Seligman 

 Inlet, on the E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°42'S., 

 65°25'W. Photographed from the air by the USAS 

 in 1940. Charted in 1947 by the FIDS, who named 

 it for M. A. Choyce, meteorologist at the FIDS Hope 

 Bay base. 



CHRISTCHURCH, MOUNT: mountain in the 

 Queen Alexandria Range, about 4,700 ft. in el., 

 standing at the S. side of Shackleton Inlet on the 

 W. side of Ross Ice Shelf; in about 82°34'S., 

 163°10'E. Disc, by the BrNAE, 1901-4, under 

 Scott, who named it for the city of ChristchurcTi, 

 New Zealand, which generously supported the ex- 

 pedition. 



Christen Christensen, Mount; Christensen, Cape; 

 Christensen, Mount: see Christensen Nunatak. 



CHRISTENSEN, MOUNT: prominent, ice-cov- 

 ered dome about 4,000 ft. in el., about 45 mi. SW. 

 of the head of Ice Bay, in Enderby Land; in about 

 68°05'S., 48°15'E. Disc, on Jan. 13, 1930 by the 

 BANZARE under Mawson, who named it for Con- 

 sul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling magnate 

 and promoter of several Norwegian expeditions. 



Christensen Coast: see Ingrid Christensen Coast; 

 Lars Christensen Coast. 



CHRISTENSEN NUNATAK: nunatak about 900 

 ft. in el., standing 1 mi. N. of Robertson I., off the 

 E. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 65°06'S., 59°34'W. Disc, 

 in 1893 by a Nor. exp. under C. A. Larsen, who 

 named it for Christen Christensen of Sandefjord, 

 Norway, pioneer of modern Antarctic whaling. It 

 was surveyed in 1902 by the SwedAE under Nord- 

 enskjold, and in 1947 and 1953 by the FIDS. Not 

 adopted: Cape Christensen, Christensen Peak, 

 Mount Christen Christensen, Mount Christensen 

 (q.v.). 



Christensen Peak: see Christensen Nunatak; 

 Lars Christensen Peak. 



CHRISTI, MOUNT: mountain, about 4,200 ft. in 

 el., standing nearly 3 mi. NE. of Mt. Pisgah in the 

 NE. part of Smith I., South Shetland Is.; in 62°54'S., 

 62°25'W. The name "Cape Christi" was given for 

 the N. cape of Smith I. by a Br. exp. under Foster, 

 1828-31, but that feature had already been named 

 Cape Smith. Since the name Cape Smith is ap- 

 proved for the cape referred to, the Br-APC recom- 

 mended in 1953 that for the sake of historical con- 

 tinuity the name Christi be approved for the moun- 

 tain now described. 



CHRISTIANIA ISLANDS : small group of islands 

 and rocks lying at the NE. end of the Palmer Arch., 

 about 10 m. NW. of Cape Sterneck, off the W. coast 

 of Palmer Pen.; in 63°55'S., 61°24'W. Charted by 

 the BelgAE, 1897-99, under De Gerlache, who 

 named the group for Christiania (now Oslo) , Nor- 

 way, where he obtained assistance and equipment 

 for the expedition. 



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