South Pass
South Pass is a route across the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming. It lies in a broad high region, 35 miles wide, between the nearly 14,000 ft Wind River Range to the north and the over 8,500 ft Oregon Buttes and arid, saline near-impassable Great Divide Basin to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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South Pass
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 7,559 feet
- Description: collective term for two mountain passes on the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Fremont, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.3697° or 42° 22′ 11″ northLongitude
-108.9136° or 108° 54′ 49″ westElevation
7,559 feet (2,304 metres)Open location code
85JH939P+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 10217262152OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“South Pass” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “South Pass”
- Czech: “Jižní průsmyk”
- Dutch: “South Pass”
- French: “South Pass”
- German: “South Pass”
- Hungarian: “South Pass”
- Italian: “South Pass”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Pass (Wyoming)”
- Norwegian: “South Pass”
- Polish: “Przełęcz Południowa”
- Portuguese: “South Pass”
- Spanish: “Paso Sur”
- Swedish: “South Pass”
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