Jennings Promontory () is a prominent rock promontory on the eastern margin of

Amery Ice Shelf The Amery Ice Shelf () is a broad ice shelf in Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains t ...

between the Branstetter Rocks and Kreitzer Glacier. It was delineated in 1952 by John H. Roscoe from air photos taken by U.S. Navy

Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

(1946–47), and named by him for Lieutenant Joe C. Jennings,

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

, co-pilot and navigator on Operation Highjump photographic flights in this area.

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Promontories of Antarctica Landforms of Mac. Robertson Land Ingrid Christensen Coast {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub