Mount Gray
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Mount Gray is a rounded, ice-worn mountain
Mountain
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 on the southwest part of McDonald Heights
McDonald Heights
McDonald Heights is a broad, mainly snow-covered heights about 35 nautical miles long and rising over 1,000 m between Cape Burks and Morris Head on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The heights are bounded southward by the Hull, Kirkpatrick and Johnson Glaciers. The feature was photographed from...

 in coastal Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...

. It stands on the east side of Hull Glacier
Hull Glacier
Hull Glacier is a glacier, about 35 nautical miles long, flowing northwest between Mount Giles and Mount Gray into Hull Bay, in Marie Byrd Land. Discovered by the United States Antarctic Service and named for Secretary of State Cordell Hull....

, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) north of Oehlenschlager Bluff
Oehlenschlager Bluff
Oehlenschlager Bluff is a steep rock bluff overlooking Hull Glacier from the north. It marks the southwest extremity of Erickson Bluffs and McDonald Heights in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by Advisory Committee on...

. Discovered on aerial flights from the West Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940, and named for Orville Gray, aviation machinist's mate, plane captain on these flights.
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