Definitions of mountain pass
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the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
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Brenner Pass
an Alpine mountain pass connecting Innsbruck in Austria with Bolzano in Italy that has long been a route for trade and for invasions
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Cumberland Gap
a pass through the Cumberland Mountains between Virginia and Kentucky that early settlers used in order to move west
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Donner Pass
a mountain pass in northeastern California near Lake Tahoe; site where in 1844 some members of an emigrant party survived by eating those who had died
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Khyber Pass
a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India
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col, gap
a pass between mountain peaks
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defile, gorge
a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
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saddle, saddleback
a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
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water gap
a pass in a mountain ridge through which a stream flows
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wind gap
a pass in a mountain ridge with no stream flowing through it
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a point or extent in space
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