Quinault Pass is a snow pass trending north-south between Lully Foothills

Lully Foothills

Lully Foothills is a large group of peaks and nunataks extending 15 nautical miles in a NE-SW direction between Vivaldi Glacier and LeMay Range in the W-central part of Alexander Island. Apparently first seen from the air and roughly mapped by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940...

 and LeMay Range

LeMay Range

LeMay Range is a mountain range 64 km long with peaks rising to 2,000 m, extending in a northwest-southeast direction from Snick Pass to Uranus Glacier in central Alexander Island. It was first seen from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth on November 23, 1935, and the north and east portions...

 in central 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...

. Photographed from the air by 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, and mapped from these photographs by D. Searle of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1960, it was named in association with the foothills by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), 1977, after the French dramatist Philippe Quinault

Philippe Quinault

Philippe Quinault , French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.- Biography :Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen...

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