GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF ANTARCTICA 



V. Adm. Sir William Parker, a Senior Naval Lord of 

 the Admiralty. 



PARPEN CRAGS : precipitous, isolated rock face, 

 near the head of Norway Bight on the S. side of 

 Coronation I., South Orkney Is.; in 60°35'S., 

 45°50'W. Surveyed and named by the FIDS fol- 

 lowing their survey of 1948-50. Parpen is a term 

 used in masonry to denote a stone extending 

 through the thickness of a wall. 



PARR, CAPE: low, rocky peninsula lying S. of 

 Cape Douglas about midway between Barne and 

 Shackleton Inlets, along the W. edge of Ross Ice 

 Shelf; in about 81°17'S., 160°35'E. Disc, by the 

 BrNAE under Scott, 1901-4, who named it for 

 Adm. Alfred Arthur Chase Parr, one of Scott's ad- 

 visers who had served in Arctic exploration. 



PARRY, MOUNT: mountain about 6,300 ft. in el., 

 dominating the W. coast of Brabant I., in the 

 Palmer Arch.; in about 64°17'S., 62°32'W. The 

 name appears on a chart of the Br. exp. under 

 Foster, 1829-31, and has since gained interna- 

 tional usage. 



Parrys Straits: see Nelson Strait. 



PARVENU POINT: low but prominent point 

 forming the N. extremity of Pourquoi Pas I., off 

 the W. coast of Palmer Pen.; in 67°34'S., 67°16'W. 

 First surveyed in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. 

 The point was resurveyed in 1948 by the FIDS and 

 found to be more conspicuous from the W. than 

 had previously been supposed, its new stature thus 

 suggesting the name. 



PARYADIN, CAPE : cape which forms the south- 

 ernmost point of the W. tip of South Georgia; in 

 54°03'S., 38°02'W. Disc, in 1775 by a Br. exp. un- 

 der Cook. Resighted in 1819 by a Russ. exp. under 

 Bellingshausen, and named for Jacob Paryadin, 

 navigating officer of the exp. ship Vestok. Not 

 adopted: Cape Pariadin, Kap Par jadine [German]. 



PASSAGE ROCK: rock in the N. entrance to 

 English Str., about 1 mi. W. of Cape Morris, Robert 

 I., in the South Shetland Is.; in 62°22'S., 59°48'W. 

 Charted in 1935 by DI personnel on the Discovery 

 II, and so named because it serves as a guide to 

 vessels passing through the entrance. 



PASSAT NUNATAK: a nunatak on Princess 

 Martha Coast, standing close E. of Boreas Nunatak 

 and fronting on the large ice shelf that here 

 fringes the coast; in about 71°18'S., 3°58'W. Disc, 

 by the GerAE under Ritscher, 1938-39, and named 

 for one of the Dornier flying boats of the expedi- 

 tion. 



Passe du Challenger: see Neptunes Bellows. 



PASSEL, MOUNT: a serrated ridge about 4 mi. 

 long, rising to an estimated 2,500 ft. in el.; standing 

 on the S. side of Crevasse Valley Glacier in the 

 central part of the Edsel Ford Ranges, in Marie 

 Byrd Land; in about 76°52'S., 144°52'W. Disc, in 

 December 1940 by members of the Edsel Ford 

 Mountains Geological Survey Party of the USAS, 

 and named for Charles F. Passel, geologist and 

 radio operator of that party. 



PASSES PEAK: pyramidal peak about 1,500 ft. 

 in el., standing about 2 mi. S. of the head of Hope 

 Bay and 3.5 mi. NE. of Duse Bay, at the NE. end of 

 Palmer Pen.; in 63°27'S., 57°03'W. First charted 

 in 1945 by the FIDS and so named because it lies 

 between two passes used by Hope Bay sledging 

 parties in traveling to Duse Bay and to the head of 

 Depot Glacier. 



PASTEUR ISLET: small rocky islet at the SE. 

 end of the Dumoulin Its., which lie at the NE. end 

 of Geologic Arch., close N. of Astrolabe Glacier 

 Tongue, off Adelie Coast; in 66°37'S., 140°06'E. 

 Photographed from the air by USN Op. Hjp., 1946- 

 47. Charted by the FrAE under Liotard, 1949-51. 

 Named by the FrAE under Barre, 1951-52, for 

 Louis Pasteur, famous French chemist who made 

 notable contributions to medical science. 



PASTEUR PENINSULA: peninsula about 7 mi. 

 long, in a N.-S. direction, and ranging from 5 to 8 

 mi. wide, lying between Guyou Bay and Bouquet de 

 la Grye Bay and forming the N. end of Brabant I., 

 in the Palmer Arch.; in 64°04'S., 62°27'W. Disc, 

 by the FrAE, 1903-5, under Charcot, and named by 

 him in honor of Louis Pasteur, famous French 

 chemist. Not adopted: Pasteur Peninsular. 



PATERSON, MOUNT: pyramidal-shaped moun- 

 tain about 3.5 mi. E. of Mt. Nilsen, standing at the 

 NE. end of the S. group of the Rockefeller Mtns. on 

 Edward VII Pen.; in about 78°01'S., 155°04'W. 

 Disc, in 1929 by the ByrdAE, and later named by 

 Byrd for Seward M. Paterson, manufacturer who 

 furnished shoes and ski boots for the ByrdAE, 

 1933-35. Not adopted: Mount Patterson. 



PATRICIA ISLANDS: two small islands about 

 15 mi. back of the entrance to Edward VIII Bay, 

 off Enderby Land; in about 66°55'S., 56°47'E. 

 Disc, and named in February 1936 by DI personnel 

 on the William Scoresby. Not adopted: Patricia 

 Island. 



PATRICK, MOUNT: mountain about 7,600 ft. in 

 el., standing about 12 mi. S. of Mt. Cyril in the 

 Commonwealth Range, on the E. side of Beardmore 



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