Descent Pass () is a pass leading from Blue Glacier to Ferrar Glacier, in

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. It was so named by the party led by

Albert Armitage Albert Borlase Armitage (2 July 1864 – 31 October 1943) was a Scottish polar explorer and officer in the Merchant Navy. Early life Armitage was born in Balquhidder, near Loch Lubnaig in Perthshire on 2 July 1864. He was one of eight ...

of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, because of the adventurous descent to Ferrar Glacier made here via Descent Glacier in 1902.

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Mountain passes of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub