Gray Peak
| Gray Peak | ||
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| height | 2570 m | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Maud Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ S , 173 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Gray peak is a distinctive, rocky and 2570 m high peaks in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Maud Mountains, it rises 6.5 km northeast of Mount Hermanson on the western flank of the Canyon Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1966 after Thomas I. Gray Jr., a meteorologist from the Little America V research station south of the Bay of Whales on the Ross Ice Shelf in 1958.
Web links
- Gray peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gray Peak on geographic.org (English)