The Sky-Hi Nunataks are a

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group long, located east of

Grossman Nunataks The Grossman Nunataks () are a group of about a dozen nunataks in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica, rising in elevation and running northwest–southeast for between the Lyon Nunataks and the Sky-Hi Nunataks. The group includes features from the Smi ...

and northeast of

Merrick Mountains The Merrick Mountains () are a cluster of mountains, long, standing northeast of the Behrendt Mountains in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Location The Merrick Mountains are in eastern Ellsworth Land, to the south of the English Coast of Geo ...

Ellsworth Land Ellsworth Land is a portion of the Antarctica, Antarctic continent bounded on the west by Marie Byrd Land, on the north by the Bellingshausen Sea, on the northeast by the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, and on the east by the western margin of t ...

, 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

The Sky-Hi Nunataks are in eastern

, They are east of

Lyon Nunataks The Lyon Nunataks () are a group of nunataks lying west of the Grossman Nunataks and northwest of the Behrendt Mountains, in Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. They include Grossenbacher Nunatak, Holtet Nunatak, Christoph Nunatak and Isakson Nunatak. ...

, northeast of

and northwest of

Sweeney Mountains The Sweeney Mountains () are a group of mountains of moderate height and about extent, located north of the Hauberg Mountains in eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Location The Sweeney Mountains are in the southeast of Ellsworth Land. They ...

. 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

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(RARE), 1947–48. The name derives from the

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(USARP) project

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, in which

Camp Sky-Hi Eights Station was an Antarctic permanent exploration base from January 1963 to November 1965, located on Ellsworth Land about 1100 km from Byrd Station and 2400 km from McMurdo Station. The station consisted of 11 prefabricated building ...

(later designated

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) 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

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is located in the Réserve faunique des Laurentides, in Canada. The nunataks were mapped in detail by the

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(USGS) from ground surveys and

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aerial photographs taken 1965-67 and United States

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imagery taken 1973–74.

Features

Doppler Nunatak

. A nunatak lying southwest of Mount Mende. Named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) in 1987 after Christian Johann Doppler (1803-53), Austrian scientist who discovered the Doppler effect in physics.

Whistler Nunatak

. A nunatak lying west of Mount Mende. Named in 1987 by US-ACAN in reference to the whistler effect caused by amplitude change of radio signals in the upper atmosphere and in association with names of upper atmosphere researchers grouped in the area.

Mount Mende

. A nunatak southwest of Mount Lanzerotti, rising to about . Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after Stephen B. Mende of the Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, a Principal Investigator in upper atmosphere research, including auroral studies, carried out at Siple Station and South Pole Station from 1973.

Mount Lanzerotti

. The northernmost of the Sky-Hi Nunataks, rising to about high in Ellsworth Land. Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after Louis J. Lanzerotti, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, a Principal Investigator for upper atmosphere research at Siple Station and South Pole Station for many years from 1970; Member, Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1982-90; Chairman, Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science, 1992-93.

Mount Carrara

. A mountain rising to high near the center of the Sky-Hi Nunataks. Named by US-ACAN after Paul E. Carrara, USGS geologist, a member of the USGS field party, 1977-78,.which carried out geological reconnaissance mapping of the area between Sky-Hi Nunataks and the Orville Coast. Carrara and two party members climbed the mountain in January 1978.

Kinter Nunatak

. The southernmost of the Sky-Hi Nunataks. Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after Paul M. Kinter, School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, who carried out research at Siple Station on VLF wave emissions and interaction in 1980-81.

Bering Nunatak

. A nunatak lying east-southeast of Mount Carrara. Named by US-ACAN after Edgar A. Bering, physicist, University of Houston, TX, who carried out upper atmosphere research at Siple Station in 1980-81.

Mount Cahill

. One of the Sky-Hi Nunataks in Ellsworth Land, rising to high east-northeast of Mount Carrara. Named in 1987 by US-ACAN after Laurence J. Cahill, Jr., physicist,

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, Principal Investigator in upper atmospheric physics at Siple Station and South Pole Station for many years from 1973.

Arnoldy Nunatak

. One of the Sky-Hi Nunataks lying south of Mount Cahill. Named by US-ACAN in 1987 after Roger L. Arnoldy, physicist, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; USARP Principal Investigator in upper atmospheric physics at Siple Station and South Pole Station for many years from 1973.

Nearby features

Graser Nunatak

. A nunatak which is isolated except for Hinely Nunatak to the southeast, located east of Sky-Hi Nunataks. Named in 1987 by US-ACAN after William F. Graser, USGS cartographer who, with John A. Hinely, formed the USGS satellite surveying team at South Pole Station, winter party 1976.

Hinely Nunatak

. A small nunatak, isolated except for Graser Nunatak to the northeast, located east of Sky-Hi Nunataks. Named in 1987 by US-ACAN after John A. Hinely, Jr., USGS civil engineer who, with William F. Graser, formed the USGS satellite surveying team at South Pole Station, winter party 1976.

References

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