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Sky-Hi Nunataks

Nunatak group in Palmer Land, Antarctica

Field	Value
country	Antarctica
country_type	Continent
subdivision2_type	Region
map	Antarctica

1:250,000 scale topographic map of the Sky-Hi Nunataks.

The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a nunatak group 8 nmi long, located 11 nmi east of Grossman Nunataks and northeast of Merrick Mountains in Ellsworth Land, extending from Doppler Nunatak in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and including Mount Mende, Mount Lanzerotti, Mount Carrara, and Mount Cahill.

Location

Eastern Ellsworth Land (south), Southern Palmer Land (north). Behrendt Mountains in southwest of map.

The Sky-Hi Nunataks are in eastern Ellsworth Land, They are east of Lyon Nunataks, northeast of Merrick Mountains and northwest of Sweeney Mountains. Features, from west to east, include Doppler Nunatak, Whistler Nunatak, Mount Mende, Mount Lanzerotti, Mount Carrara, Kinter Nunatak, Bering Nunatak, Mount Cahill and Arnoldy Nunatak. Graser Nunatak and Hinley Nunatak are some distance to the east.

Mapping and name

The nunataks were first seen and photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48. The name derives from the United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) project Sky-Hi, in which Camp Sky-Hi (later designated Eights Station) was set up in Ellsworth Land in November 1961 as a conjugate point station to carry on simultaneous measurements of the Earth's magnetic field and of the ionosphere. Sky-Hi's conjugate point in the Northern Hemisphere is located in the Réserve faunique des Laurentides, in Canada. The nunataks were mapped in detail by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from ground surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs taken 1965-67 and United States Landsat imagery taken 1973–74.

Features

Doppler Nunatak

Whistler Nunatak

Mount Mende

Mount Lanzerotti

Mount Carrara

Kinter Nunatak

Bering Nunatak

Mount Cahill

Arnoldy Nunatak

Nearby features

Graser Nunatak

Hinely Nunatak

References

Sources

{{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G.
{{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellsworth_Land_-_Palmer_Land.jpg |accessdate=2024-01-19
{{citation |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C74067s1_Ant.Map_Sky-Hi_Nunataks.jpg |accessdate=2024-01-19

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