Mount Gray () is a rounded, ice-worn mountain on the southwest part of the
McDonald Heights
The McDonald Heights () are broad, mainly snow-covered heights about long and rising over between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The heights are bounded southward by Hull Glacier, Kirkpatrick Glacier and J ...
in coastal
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centur ...
, Antarctica. It stands on the east side of
Hull Glacier
Hull Glacier () is a glacier, about long, flowing northwest between Mount Giles and Mount Gray into Hull Bay, in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.
It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41) and named for U.S. Secretary of ...
, north of
Oehlenschlager Bluff. The mountain was discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the
United States Antarctic Service
The United States Antarctic Program (or USAP; formerly known as the United States Antarctic Research Program or USARP and the United States Antarctic Service or USAS) is an organization of the United States government which has presence in the A ...
in 1940, and named for
Orville Gray, an aviation machinist's mate, and plane captain on these flights.
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Mountains of Marie Byrd Land
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