Mount Frazier
Mount Frazier | ||
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Topographic map (1: 250,000) of the Edward VII Peninsula with Mount Frazier (bottom left) |
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height | 820 m | |
location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
Mountains | Rockefeller Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ S , 154 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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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.
Web links
- Mount Frazier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Frazier on geographic.org (English)