Mount Fries
Mount Fries is a prominent peak, high, standing just south of the mouth of Zeller Glacier and being one of the westernmost summits along the south wall of Byrd Glacier. The peak is part of the Transantarctic Mountain chain which separates East Antarctica from West Antarctica. The mountain was named in 1965 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Robert H. Fries, who was the aurora and airglow research scientist at South Pole Station during Operation Deepfreeze 1963. Fries was the first astronomer to winter-over at the South Pole and noted in his annual summary report that the location would be ideal for a variety of astronomical studies. Significant astronomical and astrophysical research is ongoing at Pole Station. Project IceCube measures cosmic neutrinos and the millimeter/submillimeter South Pole Telescope studies the cosmic microwave background arising from the earliest moments of the Universe.
