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Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

the Northwest Passage

  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 Sea1981, 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

Words formed from Northwest Passage

Questions about Northwest Passage

What does Northwest Passage mean?
Northwest Passage means 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.
What part of speech is Northwest Passage?
Northwest Passage is a proper noun.

Words near Northwest Passage in the dictionary

  1. Northwest Arctic Borough
  2. northwest by north
  3. northwest by west
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. Northwest Imperative
  6. Northwest Passage
  7. Northwest Territorial Imperative
  8. Northwest Territories
  9. Northwest Territory
  10. northwestbound
  11. northwester

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