Windy Gap is a pass 975 m high, located at the northeast end of Louis Philippe Plateau

Louis Philippe Plateau

Louis Philippe Plateau is a plateau, about 11 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, which rises to 1,370 m and occupies the central part of Trinity Peninsula between Russell West Glacier and Windy Gap...

. It marks the meeting place of three valleys of Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

, namely Broad Valley

Broad Valley

Broad Valley is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following his survey in 1946....

 leading eastward toward Duse Bay

Duse Bay

Duse Bay is a bay indenting the south side of Trinity Peninsula between View Point and the west side of Tabarin Peninsula. It was discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson, of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04. Duse Bay was named by Nordenskjold, leader of the Swedish Antarctic...

, a valley

Valley

In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys...

 leading northward to Lafond Bay

Lafond Bay

Lafond Bay is a bay, 3 miles wide, lying south of Cockerell Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant Pierre Lafond, a French naval officer on the Astrolabe...

, and another southward to Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

. Discovered by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and so named because of the very bad weather experienced in the pass during a survey journey in April 1946.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.