Operation Highjump was a United States Navy

Discovery channel documentary 2015 Operation Highjump was a United States Navy crusade directed in Antarctica from 1946-47, it was the single most prominent exertion in the southern most mainland to the present day. The mission was, and keeps on being right up 'til the present time, the biggest Antarctic voyage ever attempted. It was directed by the Arctic pioneer Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, and concerned 13 vessels, 23 flying machine and alongside a military power of 4,700 men. The trusted mission was to photo, outline and broadly investigate the solidified landmass of Antartica, preceding some other power doing as such.

The mission was of an arranged nature and was primarily a military activity with military work force. In any case, it additionally included logical associations containing the US National IGY Committee and the regarded National Program which was all the more promptly worried with the mapping of Antarctica to record point of view US regional cases. The first code name allocated by the Navy to the Antarctic mission was Project Longhaul, expressive of the extensive logistics channel amongst the United States and Antarctica despite the fact that which was consequently changed to the now perceived codename of Operation Highjump.