Taylor Islands is a group of rocky islands and rocks lying at the west side of 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...

 and marking the west end 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...

. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named for Richard Spence Taylor, who served as surveyor with the U.S. Navy Operation Windmill parties which established astronomical control stations from Wilhelm II Coast to Budd Coast

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...

 in January–February 1948.