Pratt's Peak
| Pratt's Peak | ||
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| height | 915 m | |
| location | Coatsland , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Shackleton Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 80 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ S , 29 ° 20 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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The Pratts Peak is a 915 m high mountain in the East Antarctic Coats Land . In the western part of the Shackleton Range, it rises 10 km east of Mount Provender .
Participants in the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs mapped it in 1957. Aerial photographs were taken in 1967 by the United States Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1972 after the engineer David Lynn Pratt (* 1924) and the geophysicist John Geoffrey Drewe Pratt (1925-1994), who were part of the team on the expedition that made the crossing of the Antarctic continent.
Web links
- Pratts Peak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pratts Peak on geographic.org (English)