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South Pass (elevation 7,412 ft (2,259 m) and 7,550 ft (2,300 m)) is a route across the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Wyoming.It lies in a broad high region, 35 miles (56 km) wide, between the nearly 14,000 ft (4,300 m) Wind River Range to the north and the over 8,500 ft (2,600 m) Oregon Buttes [3] and arid, saline near-impassable Great Divide Basin to the south.
South Pass City is an unincorporated community in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.It is located 2 miles (3 km) south of the intersection of highways 28 and 131.A former station on the Oregon Trail, it became a ghost town after later gold mines were closed.
South Pass may refer to several places: South Pass (Canada), a Rocky Mountain pass on the continental divide; South Pass (Louisiana), a channel of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States; South Pass (Wyoming), two mountain passes on the Continental Divide, in the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Wyoming
Wyoming Highway 28 (WYO 28) is a 96.46-mile-long (155.24 km) Wyoming state highway known as the South Pass Highway.It travels from its split from Wyoming Highway 372 near the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, across the high plains and over South Pass until its junction with U.S. Route 287 8 miles (13 km) south of Lander.
The Lander Road, formally the Fort Kearney, South Pass, and Honey Lake Wagon Road, was established and built by U.S. government contractors in 1858-59. [17] It was about 80 miles (130 km) shorter than the main trail through Fort Bridger with good grass, water, firewood and fishing but it was a much steeper and rougher route, crossing three ...
The Drake Passage, between the southern tip of South America and Antarctic, is infamous as one of the most dangerous journeys on the planet. But why is it so rough – and how can you cross safely?
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Robert Stuart (February 19, 1785 – October 28, 1848) was a Scottish-born, Canadian and American fur trader, best known as a member of the first European-American party to cross South Pass during an overland expedition from Fort Astoria to Saint Louis in 1811.