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

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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″S61°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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