COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

flowing E into Support Force Glacier, Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, was photographed from the air by USN on a flight from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and back, 13 January 1956; in association with the names of pioneers in US naval aviation grouped in this area, named after Capt. Washington Irving Chambers, USN (b.1856), who was involved in the development of the aircraft catapult for ships ([c. 82 30'S 40 00'W] NGS map, 1957b; [c. 83 30'S 48 00'W] AGS map, 1959; [c. 83 28'S 49 00'W] USBGN, 1960, p.2; AGS map, 1962; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sheet SU 21-25/14, 1969; APC, 1974, p.3). The glacier was rephotographed from the air by USN in 1964 and surveyed from the ground by USGS in 1965-66. Lednik Cheymbersa (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Chambers (Argentina. IGM map, 1966).

A glacier in the Forrestal Range, Pensacola Mountains, draining E from Mount Lechner and Kent Gap, at the juncture of the Saratoga and Lexington Tables, to enter Support Force Glacier. Discovered and photographed on Jan. 13, 1956 on a transcontinental patrol plane flight of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the vicinity of Weddell Sea and return. Named by the US-ACAN after Capt. Washington I. Chambers, USN, one of the pioneers in the development of the airplane catapult for ships.

A spur at the eastern extremity of the Darwin Mountains which divides the Darwin Glacier from the Hatherton Glacier near their junction. Discovered and named by the Darwin Glacier Party of TAE (1956-58).