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Northwest Passage en · PROPN

Meanings

1. The sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, between the Baffin Bay and the Beaufort Sea.
   • Ah, for just one time / I would take the Northwest Passage / To find the hand of Franklin / Reaching for the Beaufort Sea 1981, Stan Rogers, “Northwest Passage”, in Northwest Passage, Fogarty's Cove Music, →OCLC:
   • The dream of a Northwest Passage lured European explorers for centuries with the promise of a quick, if hazardous, Arctic sea route across the New World to the wealth of Asia. 1989 May, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 586:

Forms

Coordinates

Northern Sea Route · Northeast Passage · Maritime Silk Road · Spice Route · Silk Road

Deriveds

Northeast Passage

Translations (8)

ko 북서항로 (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · fr passage du Nord-Ouest (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · ga Pasáiste Siar ó Thuaidh (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · cy y Dramwyfa'r Gogledd-Orllewin (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · fi Luoteisväylä (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · de Nordwestpassage (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · nl Noordwestelijke Doorvaart (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean) · ca pas del Nord-oest (Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean)