Southwest Pass
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This is the main deep water shipping channel entrance to the Mississippi River. Although there are several ways to reach the Mississippi from the ocean, the US Army Corps of Engineers focuses on maintaining a 45 foot channel from this entrance. The full-depth channel is maintained up to Baton Rouge.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 29°2'9"N 89°20'9"W
- Whiting Dome 80 km
- Mitchell Dome 98 km
- Chandeleur Islands 117 km
- Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (Mr. Go) (Closed) 123 km
- Breton Sound 127 km
- Lake Borgne 138 km
- Mobile Bay 216 km
- Santa Rosa Sound 248 km
- Choctawhatchee Bay 311 km
- Lake Seminole 471 km
- Jaquines Island 13 km
- Mississippi River Delta 16 km
- The Wagon Wheel (Chawnee Bay) 23 km
- Venice, Louisiana 30 km
- Hospital Bay 31 km
- Grand Bay 37 km
- Quarantine Bay 45 km
- Mississippi River Delta Erosion 45 km
- Bayou Lamoque Freshwater Diversion Project 51 km
- Nairn, Louisiana 53 km