Southwest Pass (Vermilion Parish)

Southwest Pass is a narrow strait in Vermilion Parish in southern Louisiana in the United States. It connects the Gulf of Mexico to its south with Vermilion Bay to its north.[1] It is bounded on the east by Marsh Island (in Iberia Parish) and on the west by the Louisiana mainland in southeastern Vermilion Parish.[2]

Southwest Pass should not be confused with a channel in the Mississippi River Delta at the mouth of the Mississippi River also known as Southwest Pass.

  1. ^ Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1984, p. 1144.
  2. ^ Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1984, pp. 690, 1144.