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The Northwest Passage spans roughly 900 miles from the North Atlantic north of Canada’s Baffin Island in the east to the Beaufort Sea north of the U.S. state of Alaska in the west. It’s located entirely within the Arctic Circle, less than 1,200 miles from the North [JR1]. Traversing the frozen Northwest Passage historically has required a hazardous...
John Cabot
John Cabot, a Venetian navigator living in England, became the first European to explore the Northwest Passage in 1497. He sailed from Bristol, England, in May with a small crew of 18 men and made landfall somewhere in the Canadian Maritime islands the following month. Like Christopher Columbusfive years before him, Cabot thought he had reached the shores of Asia. King Henry VII authorized a second, larger expedition for Cabot in 1498. This expedition included five ships and 200 men. Cabot an...
Jacques Cartier
In 1534, King Francis I of France sent explorer Jacques Cartierto the New World in search of riches… and a faster route to Asia. He took two ships and 61 men with him, exploring the coast of Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence and discovering today’s Prince Edward Island, but not the Northwest Passage. Cartier’s second voyage took him up the St. Lawrence River to Quebec, which he is credited with founding. Faced with scurvy among his men and increasingly angry Iroquois, Cartier captured...
Francisco de Ulloa
The Spanish referred to The Northwest Passage as the "Straight of Anián." In 1539, Spanish explorer Francisco de Ulloa, funded by Hernán Cortés, set sail from Acapulco, Mexico, in search of a Pacific route to the Northwest Passage. He sailed North up the California Coast as far as the Gulf of California, but turned around when he was unable to find the fabled Straight of Anián. He is credited with proving that California is a peninsula, not an island–a popular misconception at the time.
The passage wasn’t a commercially viable shipping route due to the sea ice, so only a handful of ships traversed the entire Northwest Passage in the decades following Amundsen’s 1906 crossing. That’s now changed, as climate changeand warming temperatures causes Arctic sea ice to melt, creating greater access to the waters. The entire route was ice-...
Trends in shipping in the Northwest Passage and Beafort Sea; Environment Canada. The Franklin Expedition; Parks Canada. Francisco de Ulloa; The California Historical Society These maps show the epic quest for a Northwest Passage; National Geographic News.
The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia. England called the hypothetical northern route the "Northwest Passage". The desire to establish such a route motivated much of the European exploration of both coasts of North America, also known as the New World.
Oct 20, 2016 · This map, published in Russia in 1784, depicts a possible Northwest Passage: on the far right side, "R. de l'Quest” connects Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Photograph courtesy Osher Map ...
4 days ago · The route is located 500 miles (800 km) north of the Arctic Circle and less than 1,200 miles (1,930 km) from the North Pole. It consists of a series of deep channels through Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, extending about 900 miles (1,450 km) from east to west, from north of Baffin Island to the Beaufort Sea, above the U.S. state of Alaska.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
That left North America to explore in the hopes of finding a Northwest Passage. In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485-1528), sailing for France, followed the North American coast as far north as Maine. In 1535 Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), also of France, reached Canada and thought he had found the passage. He sailed a thousand miles up the St ...
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North to the Orient is a 1935 book by the American writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. It is the account of the 1931 flight by her and her husband, Charles Lindbergh, from the United States to Japan and China, by the northern route over the Arctic frontier of Canada and Alaska, and Kamchatka peninsula. [1] It also documented their volunteering ...
