Tufts Pass is a pass extending in an east-west direction between Rouen Mountains

Rouen Mountains

The Rouen Mountains are a prominent mountain range, reaching about 2,800 m and extending 35 miles NW-SE from Mount Bayonne to Care Heights and Mount Cupola, in north Alexander Island, Antarctica....

 and Elgar Uplands

Elgar Uplands

Elgar Uplands are uplands rising to 1,900 m, between Tufts Pass to the north and Sullivan Glacier to the south, in the north part of Alexander Island. First photographed from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937...

 in the north part of Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

. First seen from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) in 1937. Remapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the RARE for Tufts University

Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France...

, Medford, MA, where Dr. Robert Nichols

Robert Nichols

Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, and a playwright....

was head of the geology department before joining the RARE.