Highjump Archipelago is a group of rocky islands, rocks and ice rises about 50 nautical miles (90 km) long and from 5 to 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide, lying generally north of 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...

 and extending from 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...

, close northwest of Cape Hordern

Cape Hordern

Cape Hordern is an ice-free cape, overlain by morainic drift, at the northwest end of the Bunger Hills in Antarctica. Probably sighted from Watson Bluff by A.L. Kennedy and other members of the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Mawson, 1911-14, who charted the west...

, to a prominent group of ice rises which terminate close west of Cape Elliott

Cape Elliott

Cape Elliott is an ice-covered cape marking the north extremity of the Knox Coast of Wilkes Land. It fronts on Shackleton Ice Shelf, 28 nautical miles southwest of Bowman Island. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump and named by the Advisory Committee on...

. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump 1946-47 and so 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). The codeword "highjump" was used for identifying the U.S. Navy Task Force 68, 1946-47. This task force was divided into three groups which completed photographic flights covering approximately 70 per cent of the coastal areas of Antarctica, excluding Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

, as well as significant portions of the interior.