Mount Fraser (South Georgia)

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Mount Fraser
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height 1610  m
location South Georgia
Coordinates 54 ° 37 '47 "  S , 36 ° 20' 54"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 37 '47 "  S , 36 ° 20' 54"  W.
Mount Fraser (South Georgia) (South Georgia)
Mount Fraser (South Georgia)

Mount Fraser is a 1610  m high mountain on the south coast of South Georgia . It rises there immediately north of Novosilski Bay .

The South Georgia Survey surveyed the mountain between 1951 and 1957 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1958 after the British zoologist Francis Charles Fraser (1903-1978), member of the scientific staff of the marine research station in Grytviken during three campaigns of the Discovery Investigations between 1926 and 1930 and also a crew member during the research trips of the RSS Discovery in 1927 and the RRS Discovery II between 1929 and 1931.

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