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Ewer Pass () is a pass rising to about , trending north-northwest–south-southeast between Browns Bay and
Aitken Cove Aitken Cove () is a cove which lies immediately northeast of Cape Whitson, along the south coast of Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands in the Southern Ocean. Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs ...
on
Laurie Island Laurie Island is the second largest of the South Orkney Islands. The island is claimed by both Argentina as part of Argentine Antarctica, and the United Kingdom as part of the British Antarctic Territory. However, under the Antarctic Treaty Sy ...
, in the
South Orkney Islands The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic PeninsulaUK Antarctic Place-names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
in 1987 after John R. Ewer, a Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological observer at
Cape Geddes A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck. History Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. Th ...
, Laurie Island, January–March 1947, and at
Deception Island Deception Island is an island in the South Shetland Islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula with a large and usually "safe" natural harbor, which is occasionally troubled by the underlying active volcano. This island is the caldera of an act ...
, 1947–48; he a member of the party that crossed Laurie Island via this pass.


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Landforms of the South Orkney Islands Mountain passes of Antarctica {{SouthOrkneys-geo-stub