Whistle Pass () is a snow pass at about 1,050 m at the head of

Sullivan Glacier Sullivan Glacier () is a glacier flowing west into Gilbert Glacier, immediately south of Elgar Uplands in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The glacier was first sighted from a distance by the British Graham Land Expedition during a ...

in north

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. The pass trends in a NE-SW direction and provides access to and from the upper part of Hampton Glacier. So named by

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in 1977, because the pass falls away steeply to the southwest between high cliffs, so that the descent by sledge is fast and exhilarating as suggested by the name.

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