Mount Frazier

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Mount Frazier
Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Frazier (bottom left)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Frazier (bottom left)

height 820  m
location Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains Rockefeller Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 154 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W
Mount Frazier (Antarctica)
Mount Frazier

Mount Frazier is a 820  m high mountain in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . On the Edward VII Peninsula, it rises as the northernmost peak of the Rockefeller Mountains 1.5 km north of Mount Jackling .

It was discovered on January 27, 1929 during an overflight on the first Antarctic expedition (1928–1930) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd . This later named him after Russell George Frazier (1893-1968), medical officer in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) under Byrd's leadership and involved in December 1940 in the geological exploration of the Rockefeller Mountains.

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