Mount Parry is a

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Stribog Mountains Stribog Mountains ( bg, планина Стрибог, ‘Planina Stribog’ \pla-ni-'na 'stri-bog\) is the principal mountain system of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica rising to 2498 m Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

(within the claims of

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.) with an elevation of ."Mount Parry, Antarctica"
on Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2011-12-08. Mount Parry rises eastward of Minot Point and dominates the central portion of

Brabant Island Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is long north-south, wide, and rises to in Mount Parry. The interi ...

, in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anver ...

. 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.

Etymology

The peak appears to have been named by Captain Henry Foster,

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, of the Chanticleer expedition in 1829 and since has gained international usage.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Gallery

File:Brabant-Island.png,

seen from northeast, with Mount Parry in its central part, and

Anvers Island Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic ...

(on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.

External links

Mount Parry
on

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Mount Parry
on

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Mount Parry
on peakbagger website
Mount Parry
on mountain-forecast website *

References

Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago {{Climbing-stub

Etymology

Maps

Gallery

See also

Further reading

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