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4 days ago · Northwest Passage, historical sea passage of the North American continent. It represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Archipelago of what became Canada. Learn more about the Northwest Passage in this article.
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These routes are shown on the map: 1: Davis Strait, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Viscount Melville Sound, McClure Strait, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Strait. The shortest and deepest, but difficult, way owing to the severe ice of McClure Strait. The route is preferred by submarines because of its depth.
In Quest of the North West Passage. Longmans, Green. Illustrated with black&white photos and reproductions and with maps (some fold to open out). Rundall, Thomas, ed. (1849). Narratives of voyages towards the north-west in search of a passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631. Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0665422331. Scholefield, E.O.S. (1914).
The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In the past, the Northwest Passage has been virtually impassable because it was covered by thick, year-round sea ice. However, in recent years, climate change is allowing commercial traffic to pass through the Arctic via ...
Feb 22, 2018 · The Northwest Passage spans roughly 900 miles from the North Atlantic north of Canada’s Baffin Island in the east to the Beaufort Sea north of the U.S. state of Alaska in the west. It’s ...
Oct 20, 2016 · This map, published in Russia in 1784, depicts a possible Northwest Passage: on the far right side, "R. de l'Quest” connects Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Photograph courtesy Osher Map ...
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Map Notes: NOT FOR NAVIGATION. Information is not warranted. Anchor icon color indicates data source. Route and Transit descriptions from R.K. Headland, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Red Anchorage data: "Yacht Routing Guide to the North West Passage" Victor Wejer, Toronto, Canada, Jan. 2016.
