Northwest Passage
About Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, near the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. The eastern route along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Siberia is accordingly called the Northeast Passage (NEP). The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and from mainland Canada by a series of Arctic waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passages, Northwestern Passages or the Canadian Internal Waters. In British English it is often spelled North-west Passage.
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He was the first man through the Northwest Passage and the first person to get to the North Pole as well, albeit in an airship.
from 541: No Such Thing As A Sycamore In A Silver Coat, 2024-07-25 at 00:05:21 · read transcript
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What they did, this is in the 1840s and 50s. This expedition, which you've written about, Michael, went north over Canada. They were trying to find a shorter route through the Arctic because that would be amazing for shipping. This fabled thing called the Northwest Passage, and it would cut thousands of miles off. This is before the Panama Canal, right? Yes, it is. They previously had to go all the way down South America.
No Such Thing As The Gordon Ramsay Songbook, 2025-12-04 · listen
They were stuck so they drank all the wine and said well when the spring comes it'll melt and it'll go off the spring it didn't melt there was two or three years of the worst and the coldest winters up in the Northwest Passage so basically we just stuck there for about two years ran out of food went out and try and get the trade with the Inuit but they didn't do that very well because no one had actually done the research.
No Such Thing As The Gordon Ramsay Songbook, 2025-12-04 · listen
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