[1] Download coordinates as: The Support Force Glacier flows in a north-northeast direction past the Forrestal Range to its west.

It was discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956 on a transcontinental patrol plane flight of United States Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the vicinity of Weddell Sea and return.

Chambers, United States Navy, one of the pioneers in the development of the airplane catapult for ships.

It was mapped by USGS in 1967 from ground surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs taken in 1964.

It was named by US-ACAN in 1979 after Robert W. Thompson, photographer of United States Navy Squadron VX-6 in the Balleny Islands and Sky-Hi Nunataks areas, 1963-64, and in the Pensacola Mountains, 1964-65.