Northwest Passage

How To Use Northwest Passage In A Sentence

• This only causes headaches for Canada, whose government sees the Northwest Passage as a proprietary waterway, as Canadian as Lake Winnipeg.
• The probability of ship-strike mortalities may increase with thelikely future opening of an ice-free Northwest Passage, " theresearchers note.
• And the Northwest Passage in the Arctic became ice-free for the first time in living memory.
• The patrol connects at Fort Ross with a motor schooner from the Western Arctic and with the exchange of passengers, mail and freight, an all Canadian Northwest Passage is completed. The Eastern Arctic Patrol
• Underneath, his light-blue oxford was soaked, proving that the Northwest Passage could still make a sea hound sweat.
• This is a contrast particularly present in our minds at the very time when the Northwest Passage, that romantic dream of the navigator from the very beginning of the exploration of the American continent, a dream which was to prove the death of so many, is once again a matter of present exploration, with the ghosts of Frobisher and Franklin watching the progress of the Manhattan and her accompanying icebreakers. British Foreign Policy in Transition
• Rae had been the actual discoverer of the Northwest Passage.
• Similar declines in arctic sea ice reportedly occurred at the turn of the 20th century, when the Northwest passage was also navigable, and during the 1940s. Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Arctic Ice Blogging
• BBC | Warming opens northwest passage A passagem do noroeste foi um mítico graal dos navegadores, interessados numa rota circumpolar directa entre o Atlântico e o Pacífico. Leituras
• In previous centuries, when Arctic explorers looking for the Northwest Passage got mired in ice, they had very few options.