Mount Parry | |
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Location in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,520 m (8,270 ft)[1] |
Prominence | 2,520 m (8,270 ft)[1] |
Listing | Ultra |
Coordinates | 64°16′S 62°25′W / 64.267°S 62.417°W[1] |
Geography | |
Location | Brabant Island, Antarctica |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 30 October 1984[2] |
Mount Parry is a mountain in Stribog Mountains, Antarctica (within the claims of the United Kingdom, Argentina and Chile.) with an elevation of 2,520 metres (8,268 ft).[3] Mount Parry rises eastward of Minot Point and dominates the central portion of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It has steep and partly ice-free north and west slopes, and surmounts Djerassi Glacier to the north-northwest, Mackenzie Glacier to the east, Balanstra Glacier to the south-southeast and Pirogov Glacier to the southwest.
Mount Parry was first ascended by the British Joint Services Expedition led by John Furse on 30 October 1984.[2]