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Ice, shallow water, and jurisdictional disputes have prevented regular use of the Northwest Passage for the transport of goods.Northwest Passage = a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America
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That trip was relatively uneventful, but in 1845, hoping finally to discover the fabled Northwest Passage, Franklin made the mistake of returning to the Arctic for a third time. (source)
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He tried to do it like it was something he did all the time, as if touching her someplace new wasn't like discovering the Northwest Passage. (source)
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They'd sailed in search of the Northwest Passage, as many Spaniards did in those days, and their pilot and captain, Martin de Aquilar of the Vizcaino expedition, sent a work detail ashore to cull a fresh spar pole from among the hemlocks at water's edge. (source)
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One of them came up this way on a side excursion from the Northwest Passage. (source)
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The woman sounded triumphant, as if she'd discovered the Northwest Passage, which we'd just learned about at the end of the school year. (source)
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You see, it was just the Northwest Passage of that day, as you may say; that was all. (source)Northwest Passage = a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America
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THREE SECONDS before the arrival of J. B. Hobson's letter, I no more dreamed of chasing the unicorn than of trying for the Northwest Passage. (source)
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Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would find? (source)
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We're really on a kind of Northwest Passage too. (source)
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After the South Pole, does our captain want to tackle the North Pole, then go back to the Pacific by the notorious Northwest Passage? (source)
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