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Mount Chider
Mount Chider is located in Antarctica
Mount Chider
Mount Chider
Location in Antarctica
Highest point
Elevation 3,110 m (10,200 ft)
Geography
Location Borchgrevink Coast, Victoria Land, Antarctica
Parent range Admiralty Mountains

Mount Chider is a notable mountain, 3,110 metres (10,200 ft) high, standing 2 nautical miles (4 km) southeast of Mount Hart in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Chider, helicopter pilot with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 at McMurdo Station in Operation Deep Freeze 1968.

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