Sullivan Heights () is a compact group of mountains in western

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rising to in Mount Levack centered east-northeast of

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in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Roughly elliptical in plan and long, the feature includes sharp mountain peaks, rugged ridges, and steep peripheral scarps. The heights are encompassed by the flow of the Crosswell,

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, and

Dater Glacier The Dater Glacier is a steep valley glacier in Antarctica, long and from wide, flowing northeast in a sinuous course from the eastern slopes of the Vinson Massif between Sullivan Heights and Veregava Ridge to Rutford Ice Stream which border ...

s, with their interior drained also by Pulpudeva and

Strinava Glacier Strinava Glacier ( bg, ледник Стринава, lednik Strinava, ) is the 6 km long and 3 km wide glacier in Sullivan Heights on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is draining the northeast s ...

s. Separated from

Vinson Massif Vinson Massif () is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains. It overlooks the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located ab ...

to the south-southwest by Vranya Pass. The feature was named in 1997 by the

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(US-ACAN) after Cornelius Wayne Sullivan (b. 1943), American oceanographer;

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(USAP) field team leader for

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(SIMCO) studies in McMurdo Sound, 1980–86, 1988, 1989; chief scientist and cruise coordinator for AMERIEZ ( Antarctic Marine Ecosystem Research at the Ice Edge Zone) projects in Weddell Sea, Nov–Dec 1983, Feb–Apr 1986, June–July 1988; Professor of Biological Science, Hancock Institute of

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, Director, 1991–93; Director, Office of Polar Programs,

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, 1993–97.

Maps

*Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.

Features

Geographical features include:

Crosswell Glacier Crosswell Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing north-northeast from Mount Shinn between Sullivan Heights and Bearskin Ridge, in the central part of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. Together with Patton and Pulpudeva Gl ...

* Johnson Col *

Mamarchev Peak Mamarchev Peak ( bg, Мамарчев връх, Mamarchev vrah, ) is the peak with tween heights both rising to Mount Farrell Mount Farrell is a mountain over high, rising just northwest of Dater Glacier and about east of Mount Shear, in the Sullivan Heights on the east side of Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Pulpudeva Glaci ...

* Mount Levack *

Mount Segers Mount Segers () is a mountain at the south extremity of Sullivan Heights in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, separated from Vinson Massif to the southwest by Vranya Pass. It is situated 11 km (7 mi) east of Mo ...

Nebeska Peak Nebeska Peak ( bg, връх Небеска, vrah Nebeska, ) is the rocky peak rising to 2450 m in Sullivan Heights on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is surmounting Pulpudeva Glacier to the north and Hi ...

Pulpudeva Glacier Pulpudeva Glacier ( bg, ледник Пулпудева, lednik Pulpudeva, ) is the long and wide glacier in Sullivan Heights, Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is draining the area northeast of Nebeska Peak, north of ...

* Vranya Pass *

Zmeevo Pass Zmeevo Pass ( bg, проход Змеево, ‘Prohod Zmeevo’ \'pro-hod 'zme-e-vo\) is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 2110 mSullivan Heights.
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