Northwest Passage is the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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37 Facts About North-West Passage
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If, as has been claimed, parts of the eastern end of the North-West Passage are barely 15 metres deep, the route's viability as a Euro-Asian shipping route is reduced.
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The Northwest North-West Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia.
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Largest passenger ship to navigate the Northwest North-West Passage was the cruise liner Crystal Serenity of gross tonnage 69,000.
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North-West Passage's voyage perpetuated the notion of the Island of California and saw the beginning of a search for the Strait of Anian.
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Weymouth's expedition to find the Northwest North-West Passage was funded jointly by the British East India Company and the Muscovy Company.
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In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up what is called the Hudson River in search of the North-West Passage; encouraged by the saltiness of the water in the estuary, he reached present-day Albany, New York, before giving up.
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North-West Passage proceeded upstream as far as present-day Troy before concluding that no such strait existed there.
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North-West Passage's mission was to discover the Northwest Passage to the Indies and China.
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North-West Passage made his way across Lake Erie and Lake Huron, making port on Mackinac Island before landing at Washington Island at the mouth of Green Bay to trade for furs with Pottawatomie Indians.
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North-West Passage crossed to the town of Fort Nelson and spent the summer on the Hayes River.
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North-West Passage concluded that North America and Russia were separate land masses by sailing between them.
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North-West Passage's ship was wrecked off the Kamchatka Peninsula, as many of his crew were disabled by scurvy.
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North-West Passage was explicitly ordered to explore all channels that might turn out to be a Northwest Passage.
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North-West Passage headed north along the coastline, charting the lands and searching for the regions sailed by the Russians 40 years previously.
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North-West Passage confirmed that there was no such passage south of the Bering Strait.
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North-West Passage sailed the Pacific north and passed through the Bering Strait, turning east at that point and reaching Banks Island.
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North-West Passage used dog sleds and techniques of surviving in the environment which he had learned from the native Inuit.
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North-West Passage sent a telegram announcing his success and skied the return 800 kilometres to rejoin his companions.
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North-West Passage made the trip in 86 days to sail back from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia.
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North-West Passage set a record for traversing the route in a single season.
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North-West Passage was the first warship to transit the Northwest Passage and the first warship to circumnavigate North America.
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North-West Passage continued around the world via the Cape of Good Hope to return to England on September 24,1990.
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North-West Passage's was the first vessel to circumnavigate the world via the Northwest Passage.
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North-West Passage returned to Ireland via the Norwegian coast in October 2005.
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North-West Passage became the only British vessel to complete the Northwest Passage in one season, as well as the only British sailing yacht to return from there to British waters.
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In 2006, a scheduled cruise liner successfully ran the Northwest North-West Passage, helped by satellite images telling the location of sea ice.
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The Northwest North-West Passage Drive Expedition is captured in the motion picture documentary film North-West Passage To Mars.
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North-West Passage was the first person to sail solo non-stop through the passage.
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The World transit of the Northwest North-West Passage was documented by National Geographic photographer Raul Touzon.
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North-West Passage was carrying a cargo of 73,500 short tons of coking coal from Port Metro Vancouver, Canada, to the Finnish Port of Pori, 15,000 short tons more than would have been possible via the traditional Panama Canal route.
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The Northwest North-West Passage shortened the distance by 1,000 nautical miles compared to traditional route via the Panama Canal.
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In June 2019, the US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said, “We view Canada's claim that the waters of the Northwest North-West Passage are internal waters of Canada as inconsistent with international law, ” despite historical precedent regarding archipelago baselines.
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In January 2010, the ongoing reduction in the Arctic sea ice led telecoms cable specialist Kodiak-Kenai Cable to propose the laying of a fibre-optic cable connecting London and Tokyo by way of the Northwest North-West Passage, saying the proposed system would nearly cut in half the time it takes to send messages from the United Kingdom to Japan.
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Scientists believe that reduced sea ice in the Northwest North-West Passage has permitted some new species to migrate across the Arctic Ocean.
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