Chester Cone

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Usnea Plug and Midge Lake.

Peak

Usnea Plug is a volcanic plug, 30 m from base to summit, rising to 117 m in the interior of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Lake

Midge Lake is the largest among numerous freshwater lakes on the ice-free Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Basalt Lake is a small freshwater lake surrounded by three basalt outcrops with ‘organ-pipe’ formations in their rocks, situated in the central part of the ice-free Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. and draining through a 1.6 kilometres stream southwards into Bransfield Strait.

Latitude

-62.63802° or 62° 38′ 17″ south

Longitude

-61.08424° or 61° 5′ 3″ west

Elevation

188 metres (617 feet)

Open location code

379W9W68+Q8

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

Wikidata ID

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