Cape Parr () is a large snow-covered cape along the west side of the
Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
, about 8 nautical miles (15 km) south of
Gentile Point. Discovered by the ''Discovery'' expedition (1901–04) under Scott, who named it for
Admiral Alfred Arthur Chase Parr, one of Scott's advisors who had served in Arctic exploration.
Headlands of the Ross Dependency
Shackleton Coast
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