Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Parpen Crags

(Coronation Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 60° 34' 59" S 45° 48' 58" W
surrounded by steep ice slopes and rising to c. 500m at head of Norway Bight, Coronation Island, were surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Signy, 1948-50, and named descriptively, a parpen being a mason's term for a stone passing through the thickness of a wall.