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 The Search for a Northwest Passage Summary
1,470 words, approx. 5 pages Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) explored northern North America with hopes of finding gold and precious metals, and possibly a cross-continental passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He never realized those goals, but he did find something... summary from source:
 Northwest Passage
160 words, approx. 1 pagesSea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the northern coast of North America. The search for a commercial sea route around the American land barrier dates from the end of the 15th century and attracted explorers such as Jacques... summary from source:
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5,417 words, approx. 18 pages
The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via the waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.[1][2] The various islands of the archipelago... 
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 Business Perspectives The Northwest Passage.
09/22/2004: 1,149 words, approx. 4 pages The Northwest Passage exhibit that is coming to the Memphis Zoo will take people of the Mid-South on a journey through the history, culture, and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest during the time of Lewis and Clark. The idea for this exhibit began... summary from source:
The Washington Post Northwest Passages
07/16/1990: 869 words, approx. 3 pages THE GOOD RAIN Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest By Timothy Egan Knopf. 254 pp. $19.95 Several decades ago, when Boston expatriate Stewart Holbrook wrote "The Far Corner," still considered by natives to be the definitive profile of... summary from source:
 AP News Canada's leader to assert Arctic claim
8/19/2007: 491 words, approx. 2 pagesCanada's prime minister is expected to assert his nation's claim to the fabled Northwest Passage through the warming, resource-rich Arctic at talks with President Bush starting Monday.Canada claimed the passage in 1973 but competition to control the Arctic has intensified with global warming. Shrinking polar... summary from source:
AP News Competing claims over Arctic region
8/8/2007: 692 words, approx. 2 pagesCanada's prime minister began a three-day trip to the Arctic on Wednesday in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines.Although Stephen Harper's visit has been planned for months, it...
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