Crawford Atchison Denman Pasco (17 January 1818 – 28 February 1898)[3] was a Royal Navy officer and Australian police magistrate during the 19th century.

[2] There were two periods to his career, first as in the Royal Navy:[2] He wrote in 1846 to the editor of the Hong Kong Register suggesting that the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P. & O. Co.) might extend its mail steamer services from Singapore to Australia.

[2] In 1852 P. & O. Co. gave him free passage on the inaugural voyage to Australia of the SS Chusan.

[2] And later in Victoria, Australia:[2] Pasco retired in Melbourne and became a founder member of the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in 1884, he was chairman of the first Antarctic Exploration Committee.

[8] In 1897 he published A Roving Commission,[9] a vivid account of his naval life.