Bunger Hills
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Bunger Hills or Bunger Lakes or Bunger Oasis is a coastal range in Antarctica, consisting of a group of moderately low, rounded coastal hills, overlain by morainic drift and notably ice free in the summer months, lying south of the Highjump Archipelago. The Bunger Hills are located at . The Bunger Hills are marked by numerous meltwater ponds and are nearly bisected by an east-west trending Algae Lake. Mapped from air photos taken by the United States Navy Operation OpHjp (1946-1947) and named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Commander David E. Bunger, United States Navy, plane commander of one of the three USN OpHjp aircraft which engaged in photographic missions along most of the coastal area between 14 E and 164 E. David E. Bunger and members of his crew landed their airplane on an unfrozen lake here in February 1947.
