Frazier Islands is a group of four rocky islands in the eastern part of Vincennes Bay

Vincennes Bay

Vincennes Bay is a large V-shaped bay, 105 km wide at its entrance between Cape Nutt and Cape Folger in Antarctica, marked by several large, steep glaciers near its head, lying along Knox and Budd Coasts. Photographed from the air by USN OpHjp, 1946-47...

, 8 nautical miles (15 km) west-northwest of Clark Peninsula

Clark Peninsula

Clark Peninsula is a rocky peninsula, long and 2 miles wide, lying at the north side of Newcomb Bay on Budd Coast. It was first mapped from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in February 1947 and thought to be an island connected by a steep snow ramp to the continental ice...

. The islands were first photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) for Commander Paul W. Frazier, U.S. Navy, navigator and projects officer with U.S. Navy Operation Windmill which visited this area in January 1948, who later served as operations officer with U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze I at Little America V.