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Halfaya Pass (, known colloquially as Hellfire Pass) is located in Egypt, near the border with Libya. A high escarpment extends south eastwards from the Egyptian-Libyan border at the coast at as-Salum (or Saloum, Solum, Sollum), with the scarp slope facing into Egypt. Halfaya Pass is about two miles inland from the Mediterranean and provides a natural route through. The escarpment is known as () "great ascent". To El-Edrisi it was known as () "graded ascent", whence the modern name of the gulf and the town of Salum.

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  • Halfaya Pass (, known colloquially as Hellfire Pass) is located in Egypt, near the border with Libya. A high escarpment extends south eastwards from the Egyptian-Libyan border at the coast at as-Salum (or Saloum, Solum, Sollum), with the scarp slope facing into Egypt. Halfaya Pass is about two miles inland from the Mediterranean and provides a natural route through. The escarpment is known as () "great ascent". To El-Edrisi it was known as () "graded ascent", whence the modern name of the gulf and the town of Salum.
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  • Halfaya Pass (, known colloquially as Hellfire Pass) is located in Egypt, near the border with Libya. A high escarpment extends south eastwards from the Egyptian-Libyan border at the coast at as-Salum (or Saloum, Solum, Sollum), with the scarp slope facing into Egypt. Halfaya Pass is about two miles inland from the Mediterranean and provides a natural route through. The escarpment is known as () "great ascent". To El-Edrisi it was known as () "graded ascent", whence the modern name of the gulf and the town of Salum. In antiquity it was known as Catabathamus Magnus. It was considered as marking the boundary between Africa and Asia in Hellenistic geography. It separated the provinces of Aegyptus and Marmarica.
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