Pratts Peak
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Pratts Peak () is a rock peak 6 nautical miles (11 km) east of Mount Provender in the west part of Shackleton Range. First mapped in 1957 by the CTAE; photographed in 1967 by U.S. Navy (trimetrogon aerial photography). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for David L. Pratt, engineer, and John G. D. Pratt, geophysicist, with the transpolar party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1956-58.
This article incorporates text from Pratts Peak, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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