Frazier Islands
| Frazier Islands | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 13 ′ S , 110 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| Number of islands | 4th | |
| Main island | Nelly Island | |
The Frazier Islands are one of four rocky islands existing group of islands off the Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilkes Land . They are located 13 km west-northwest of the Clark Peninsula in the eastern section of Vincennes Bay .
The first aerial photographs were taken during the US operation Highjump (1946–1947). The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the islands in 1957 after Paul Wilson Frazier (1920-2009), navigator and project officer in the United States Navy in Operation Windmill (1947-1948), who later served as an operations officer on the station during Operation Deep Freeze Little America V was operating.
Web links
- Frazier Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Frazier Islands on geographic.org (English)
- Map (PDF) of the Windmill Islands and the surrounding area (March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)