The Tebaga Gap of southern Tunisia is a low mountain pass located in rough rocky broken country giving entry to the inhabited coastal plain to the north and east from much less hospitable desert dominated terrain in southern and south-western Tunisia. The pass separates the to the east running roughly north to south from the , another line of high ground to the west of the gap running east–west. The terrain of the region about the pass was of great tactical importance during the Second World War in 1939–1940 and in 1943..