Ewer Pass
| Ewer Pass | |||
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| Compass direction | North-Northwest ( Browns Bay ) | South-Southeast ( Aitken Cove ) | |
| Pass height | 200 m | ||
| Laurie Island , South Orkney Islands | |||
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 42 ′ 58 ″ S , 44 ° 31 ′ 59 ″ W | ||
The Ewer Pass is a 200 m high mountain pass on Laurie Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It runs from Browns Bay to Aitken Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1988 after the meteorologist Jack Renew Ewer (* 1918) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who was stationed at Cape Geddes from January to March 1947 and on Deception Island from 1947 to 1948 and at the crossing of Laurie Island was involved across this pass.
Web links
- Ewer Pass in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ewer Pass on geographic.org (English)