Gray Hill

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Gray Hill
height 1020  m
location Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica
Mountains Forrestal Range , Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates 82 ° 55 ′ 48 ″  S , 48 ° 26 ′ 20 ″  W Coordinates: 82 ° 55 ′ 48 ″  S , 48 ° 26 ′ 20 ″  W
Gray Hill (Antarctica)
Gray Hill
Normal way Alpine tour (glaciated)

The Gray Hill is a mostly icy and 1020  m high hill in the West Antarctic Queen Elizabeth Land . On the east side of the Forrestal Range of the Pensacola Mountains, it rises 4 km south of the Crouse Spur .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1956 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after Master Sergeant Kitt Gray Jr. (1918-1998) of the United States Air Force , flight engineer and member of the United States Air Force Electronics Test Unit in the Pensacola Mountains from 1957 to 1958.

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