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Ewer Pass

Coordinates: 60°43′S 44°32′W / 60.717°S 44.533°W / -60.717; -44.533
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Ewer Pass (60°43′S 44°32′W / 60.717°S 44.533°W / -60.717; -44.533) is a pass rising to about 200 metres (660 ft), trending north-northwest–south-southeast between Browns Bay and Aitken Cove on Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1987 after John R. Ewer, a Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological observer at Cape Geddes, Laurie Island, January–March 1947, and at Deception Island, 1947–48; he a member of the party that crossed Laurie Island via this pass.[1]

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  1. ^ "Ewer Pass". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 9 March 2012.

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