northwest passage in English

noun
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a sea passage along the northern coast of the North American continent, through the Canadian Arctic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It was sought for many years as a possible trade route by explorers that included Sebastian Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Martin Frobisher; it was first navigated 1903-06 by Roald Amundsen.

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1. Northwest passage observed round the clock DEVON ISLAND, Nunavut — Army, Navy and Air Force monitor sea traffic in OP Lancaster.

2. Northwest passage observed round the clock DEVON ISLAND, Nunavut â€" Army, Navy and Air Force monitor sea traffic in OP Lancaster.

3. By the 1840s, the Northwest Passage had been explored from both east and west; all that remained was to connect these two known routes.

4. The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia. Sentencedict.com

5. Cartographer: 1 n a person who makes maps Synonyms: map maker Examples: Sebastian Cabot son of John Cabot who was born in Italy and who led an English expedition in search of the Northwest Passage and a Spanish expedition that explored the La Plata region of Brazil; in 1544 he published a map of the world (1476-1557) Type of: geographer an

6. In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, home to some of our most famous rivers, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, and these networks were the historical routes for the voyageur and the coureur de bois, the first non-aboriginal explorers of Northern Canada that, taking from the First Nations people, used canoes and paddled to explore for a trade route, a Northwest Passage for the fur trade.