Parry Islands

A subgroup of the Queen Elizabeth Islands of northern Canada, southwest of the Sverdrup Islands and north of Victoria Island. Melville Island is the largest in the group.

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They had observed the magnificent sequences of folded Paleozoic rocks on Bathurst and Melville Islands (Parry Islands Fold Belt), which were overlain by little-deformed Mesozoic strata on Melville Island.

Raymond Thorsteinsson (1921-2012)

Parry and his crew discovered the coasts of islands now known collectively as the Parry Islands (Cornwallis, Bathurst, Byam, Martin and Melville Islands).