Mount Fraser
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Mount Fraser () 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.
This article incorporates text from Mount Fraser, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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