Sky-Hi-Nunatakker

Sky-Hi-Nunatakker
location	Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Coordinates	74 ° 52 ′ S , 71 ° 30 ′ W Coordinates: 74 ° 52 ′ S , 71 ° 30 ′ W
	Map sheet Sky-Hi Nunataks from 1988 with the mountains in the southwest of the map

The Sky-Hi-Nunatakker are a group of Nunatakkers in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . They loom eight miles east of the Grossman Nunatakker and northeast of the Merrick Mountains . The formation extends for 11 km from the Doppler Nunatak in the west to the Arnoldy Nunatak in the east and includes the Bering Nunatak , the Whistler Nunatak , Mount Mende , Mount Lanzerotti , Mount Carrara and Mount Cahill .

They were discovered and photographed from the air during the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). Its name is based on the Sky-Hi project of the United States Antarctic Research Program , in which measurements of the earth's magnetic field and the ionosphere were carried out in November 1961 by the later Eights station in conjunction with a station in the Canadian Laurentides Wildlife Reserve . The United States Geological Survey mapped the Nunatakker using its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy (1965–1967) and Landsat satellite images (1973–1974).

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