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    The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America...
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    and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine...
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  • "Northwest Passage" is one of the best-known songs by Canadian musician Stan Rogers. The original recording from the 1981 album of the same name is an...
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    Northwest Passage, also billed as Northwest Passage (Book 1: Rogers' Rangers), is a 1940 American Western film in Technicolor, directed by King Vidor...
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  • The Northwest Passage is a historical sea route between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, through the Arctic waters of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. Northwest...
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  • Northwest Passage is an historical novel by Kenneth Roberts, published in 1937. Told through the eyes of primary character Langdon Towne, much of the...
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  • Northwest Passage is a 1981 album by Stan Rogers. "Northwest Passage" compares the singer's own travels across the prairie provinces to the exploratory...
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  • "Northwest Passage" is the 21st episode of the second season of the American science fiction drama television series Fringe, and the 41st episode overall...
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    western route through the islands of Canada is accordingly called the Northwest Passage (NWP). The NEP traverses (from west to east) the Barents Sea, Kara...
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    notable for being the first large sea freighter to transit the Arctic Northwest Passage. It is owned and operated by Nordic Bulk Carriers. Nordic Orion started...
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    Northwest Passage is a 1958–59 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time...
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    North America continued for the Northwest Passage. John Cabot's initial failure in 1497 to find a Northwest Passage across the Atlantic led the British...
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    During his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island...
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  • Northwest Passage is a book based upon the famous Canadian song "Northwest Passage". The song is a story of a man's travel through the arctic of Canada...
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    World became the largest passenger vessel at the time to transit the Northwest Passage. The ship, carrying 481 passengers and crew, for 26 days and 4,800...
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    is included in what has been called the Northeast Passage, analogous to Canada's Northwest Passage. The Northern Sea Route itself does not include the...
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    to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage on the sloop Gjøa. In 1909, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole...
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    Irish explorer who explored the Arctic. In 1854 he traversed the Northwest Passage by boat and sledge, and was the first to circumnavigate the Americas...
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    Gate to the Northwest Passage is a 1980 sculpture by Alan Chung Hung, located adjacent to the Vancouver Maritime Museum in Vanier Park in the Kitsilano...
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    had opened up the Northwest Passage "for the first time since records began in 1978", and the extreme loss in 2007 rendered the passage "fully navigable"...
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    Massachusetts, that became the first commercial ship to cross the Northwest Passage in 1969. Having been built as an ordinary tanker in 1962, she was...
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    was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three-year journey, finishing in...
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  • (1992) [AG5005] - Four interconnected adventures set in Night City. Northwest Passage, by Andrew J. Lucas and Jeff Ranger (1995) [AG5070] - The characters...
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    The Inside Passage (French: Passage Intérieur) is a coastal route for ships and boats along a network of passages which weave through the islands on the...
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    fabled Northwest Passage?" Archived 9 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine CNN. 29 August 2002. "Largest Cruise Ship Ever To Sail Northwest Passage Docks...
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    joint Muscovy Company/East India Company expedition in search of the Northwest Passage 1607: Henry Hudson explores Spitsbergen 1608: Henry Hudson gets as...
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  • The pilot episode, also known as "Northwest Passage", of the mystery television series Twin Peaks premiered on the ABC Network on Sunday, April 8, 1990...
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    The Northwest Passage Light was a lighthouse located eight miles (13 km) from Key West, Florida, at the entrance to the northwest channel to the Key West...
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    explorer Martin Frobisher. While leading an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Frobisher thought he had discovered gold ore around the body of water...
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    (RIB) through 5,700 nautical miles (10,600 km) of the ice-strewn Northwest Passage. The expedition intended to raise awareness of the effects of global...
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