🏔️ Quinault Pass

Antarctica · Antarctica · 70.82°S, 69.47°W

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Quinault Pass is a snow pass trending in a north–south direction lying between the Lully Foothills and the LeMay Range in central portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature was photographed from the air by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960, it was named in association with the nearby Lully Foothills by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1977, after the French dramatist Philippe Quinault, (1635–1688).

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)70.82°S, 69.47°W · view on map

Quinault Pass is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More mountain passes in Antarctica

Anare Pass · Arena Saddle · Armitage Saddle · Auster Pass · Benighted Pass · Benz Pass · Bigend Saddle · Black Pass · Brattskarvbrekka Pass · Brawhm Pass.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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