Sky-Hi Nunataks is a nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

 group 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, located 11 nautical miles (20 km) east of Grossman Nunataks

Grossman Nunataks

Grossman Nunataks is a group of about a dozen nunataks in Palmer Land, rising 1,300-1,500 m in elevation and running NW-SE for 18 nautical miles between Lyon Nunataks and Sky-Hi Nunataks. The group includes features from Smith Nunataks and Whitmill Nunatak in the northwest to Gaylord Nunatak and...

 and northeast of Merrick Mountains

Merrick Mountains

The Merrick Mountains . are a cluster of mountains, 13 km long, standing 11 km northeast of the Behrendt Mountains in Palmer Land, Antarctica. Discovered and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition, 1947–1948, under Finn Ronne.Named by US-ACAN for Conrad G...

 in Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

, extending from Doppler Nunatak

Doppler Nunatak

Doppler Nunatak is a nunatak lying southwest of Mount Mende in the Sky-Hi Nunataks. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Christian Johann Doppler , Austrian scientist who discovered the Doppler effect in physics....

 in the west to Arnoldy Nunatak

Arnoldy Nunatak

Arnoldy Nunatak is one of the Sky-Hi Nunataks lying south of Mount Cahill. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Roger L. Arnoldy, a physicist at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire...

 in the east and including Mount Mende

Mount Mende

Mount Mende is a nunatak 0.5 nautical miles southwest of Mount Lanzerotti, rising to about 1,500 m in the Sky-Hi Nunataks of Ellsworth Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Stephen B...

, Mount Lanzerotti

Mount Lanzerotti

Mount Lanzerotti is the northernmost of the Sky-Hi Nunataks, rising to about 1,550 m in Palmer Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1987 after Louis J...

, Mount Carrara

Mount Carrara

Mount Carrara is a mountain rising to near the center of the Sky-Hi Nunataks in Palmer Land. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Paul E. Carrara, United States Geological Survey geologist, a member of the USGS field party, 1977–78, which carried out geological...

, and Mount Cahill

Mount Cahill

Mount Cahill is one of the Sky-Hi Nunataks in Palmer Land, rising to east-northeast of Mount Carrara. It was named in 1987 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Laurence J. Cahill, Jr., physicist, University of Minnesota; Principal Investigator in upper atmospheric physics at Siple...

. The nunataks were first seen and photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (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

Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...

 is located in the Parc National des Laurentides, in Canada. The nunataks were mapped in detail by United States Geological Survey

United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...

 (USGS) from ground surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs taken 1965-67 and U.S. Landsat imagery taken 1973-74.