Mount Frazier
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Mount Frazier is a northernmost peak of the Rockefeller Mountains
Rockefeller Mountains
The Rockefeller Mountains are a group of low-lying, scattered granite peaks and ridges, almost entirely snow covered, standing 30 miles south-southwest of the Alexandra Mountains on the Edward VII Peninsula of Antarctica....

, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) north of Mount Jackling
Mount Jackling
Mount Jackling is a peak 1 mile south of Mount Frazier in the north group of the Rockefeller Mountains on Edward VII Peninsula in Marie Byrd Land. Discovered on January 27, 1929, by members of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition on an exploratory flight over this area. The name was applied by the...

 on Edward VII Peninsula
Edward VII Peninsula
King Edward VII Land or King Edward VII Peninsula is a large, ice-covered peninsula which forms the northwestern extremity of Marie Byrd Land. The peninsula projects into the Ross Sea between Sulzberger Bay and the northeast corner of the Ross Ice Shelf, and forms part of the Ross Dependency...

 in Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land
Marie Byrd Land is the portion of West Antarctica lying east of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and south of the Pacific Ocean, extending eastward approximately to a line between the head of the Ross Ice Shelf and Eights Coast. It stretches between 158°W and 103°24'W...

. Discovered on January 27, 1929, by the ByrdAE. Named for Russell G. Frazier, medical officer at West Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) (1939–41), and observer with the Rockefeller Mountains Geological Party, which visited this area in December 1940.
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