Mount Petras
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Mount Petras () is a high, prominent, ridge-shaped mountain, 2,865 m, standing 10 miles southeast of Mount Flint in the McCuddin Mountains, Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered by the US Antarctic Service (USAS) on a flight from West Base on 14 December-15, 1940, and named for Theodore A. Petras, master technical sergeant, USMC, pilot of the airplane on this flight.
This article incorporates text from Mount Petras, 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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