Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855), wintering on the Melville Peninsula, at the southeast corner of Winter Island, 1819-20. Parry's first voyage in 1819 was one of the most important in the exploration of the North-West Passage. On board the Helca, with second-in-command Matthew Liddon on the Griper, Parry established that a westward route existed through Lancaster Sound. When the sea froze Parry's crew wintered on the south coast of Melville Island in Winter Harbour, where they stayed for 10 months until the ice melted.

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