Mount Fraser

Mount Fraser

Mount Fraser (54°37′S 36°21′W / 54.617°S 36.35°W / -54.617; -36.35) is a mountain, 1,610 m, standing on the south coast of South Georgia immediately north of Novosilski Bay. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Francis C. Fraser, British zoologist; member of the scientific staff at the Discovery Investigations Marine Station, Grytviken, 1926–27, 1928–29, and 1930, who also worked on the Discovery in 1927 and on Discovery II between 1929 and 1931.

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