Parry Point

Parry Point
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height	750 m
location	Coatsland , East Antarctica
Mountains	Theron Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	79 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 30 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 79 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 30 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W

The Parry Point (in the UK Parry Cliff is) a 750 m high and prominent ledge or Nunatak at the Luitpold Coast in the East Antarctic Coats Land . It rises 40 km west of Mount Faraway in the Theron Mountains on the northern flank of the mouth of the Slessor Glacier in the east side of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf .

Participants of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) under the direction of British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs mapped it between 1957 and 1958. It is named after Rear Admiral Cecil Ramsden Langworthy Parry (1901-1977), secretary of the expedition.

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