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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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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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 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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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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"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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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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Arctic exploration (section Northwest Passage)
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 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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Northern Sea Route (redirect from North-East Passage)
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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Robert McClure (section Northwest Passage)
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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MS The World (section Northwest Passage transits)
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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Roald Amundsen (section The Northwest Passage)
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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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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Mark Agnew is a British adventurer notable for kayaking the Northwest Passage. Mark was awarded European Adventurer of the Year 2023. He is the heir apparent...
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Pilot (Twin Peaks) (redirect from Northwest Passage (Twin Peaks))
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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List of Cyberpunk 2020 books (redirect from Northwest Passage (Cyberpunk))
(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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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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James Knight (explorer) (section Northwest Passage)
Company and an explorer who disappeared on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Knight was born in England and joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)...
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Gjøa (section Journey through the Northwest Passage)
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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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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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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region around the modern New York metropolitan area. Looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia on his ship Halve Maen ("Half Moon"), he sailed up the Hudson...
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Robert Bylot (section Northwest Passage)
to England. In 1615, the Muscovy Company hired Bylot to find the Northwest Passage as captain of Discovery. William Baffin was the pilot. They sailed...
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The Northwest Passage Drive Expedition (NWPDX) (2009–2011) was a multi-stage vehicular expedition from the North American mainland to Devon Island in...
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Bear Grylls (section Northwest Passage expedition)
(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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