Edisto Channel is a channel, whose south end is filled by Edisto Ice Tongue

Edisto Ice Tongue

Edisto Ice Tongue is an ice tongue along the northwest margin of Bunger Hills where it occupies the southwestern portion of Edisto Channel, in the Highjump Archipelago. The ice tongue is a seaward extension of the flow of Apfel Glacier as well as part of the main flow of Scott Glacier. Mapped from...

. It extends in a NE-SW direction between the Taylor Islands

Taylor Islands

Taylor Islands is a group of rocky islands and rocks lying at the west side of Edisto Ice Tongue and marking the west end of the Highjump Archipelago. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named for Richard Spence Taylor, who served as surveyor with...

 and the northwest islands of the Highjump Archipelago

Highjump Archipelago

Highjump Archipelago is a group of rocky islands, rocks and ice rises about 50 nautical miles long and from 5 to 15 nautical miles wide, lying generally north of the Bunger Hills and extending from the Taylor Islands, close northwest of Cape Hordern, to a prominent group of ice rises which...

 on the west, and the Bunger Hills

Bunger Hills

Bunger Hills or Bunger Lakes or Bunger Oasis is a coastal range on the Knox Coast in Wilkes Land in Antarctica, consisting of a group of moderately low, rounded coastal hills, overlain by morainic drift and notably ice free throughout the year, lying south of the Highjump Archipelago.The Bunger...

, Thomas Island

Thomas Island

Thomas Island is a large island in Highjump Archipelago, 6 nautical miles long and from 1 to 3 nautical miles wide, lying near the center of the main cluster of islands off the north flank of the Bunger Hills. Mapped from air photos taken by U.S...

, and the remaining islands in the Highjump Archipelago on the east. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) for the USS which assisted in establishing astronomical control stations along Wilhelm II, Queen Mary

Queen Mary Coast

Queen Mary Land or the Queen Mary Coast is that portion of the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory lying between Cape Filchner, in 91° 54' E, and Cape Hordern, at 100° 30' E. It was discovered in February 1912 by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under the leadership of Douglas...

, Knox

Knox Coast

Knox Coast, part of Wilkes Land, is a portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between Cape Hordern, at 100° 31' E, and the Hatch Islands, at 109° 16' E.-History:...

 and Budd

Budd Coast

Budd Coast , part of Wilkes Land, is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between the Hatch Islands, at 109°16'E, and Cape Waldron, at 115°33'E. It was discovered in February 1840 by the U.S. Exploring Expedition under the leadership of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and named by Wilkes for...

coasts.