Mount Franke is a prominent mountain

Mountain

Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 (1,600 m) with much rock exposed on its north side, standing between Mount Wasko

Mount Wasko

Mount Wasko is a double-peaked, saddle-shaped mountain on the west side of Shackleton Glacier, 3 nautical miles north of Mount Franke, in the Queen Maud Mountains. Discovered by the United States Antarctic Service , and surveyed by A.P. Crary . Named by Crary for Lieutenant Commander Frank...

 and Mount Cole

Mount Cole

Mount Cole is a mountain over high, on the west side of Shackleton Glacier, between the mouths of Forman Glacier and Gerasimou Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains. It was discovered and photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names...

 along the west side of Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier

Shackleton Glacier is a major Antarctic glacier, over long and from 8 to 16 km wide, descending from the polar plateau from the vicinity of Roberts Massif and flowing north through the Queen Maud Mountains to enter the Ross Ice Shelf between Mount Speed and Waldron Spurs. The Roberts Massif...

. Discovered and photographed by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41. Surveyed by A.P. Crary in 1957-58 and named by him for Lieutenant Commander Willard J. Franke, U.S. Navy, of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6

VX-6

Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...

, who wintered at Little America V, 1958.