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Map of the Arctic region showing the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage. The Beluga group of Bremen, Germany, sent the first Western commercial vessels through the Northern Sea Route (Northeast Passage) in 2009. [29]
Map of the Arctic region showing the Northern Sea Route, in the context of the Northeast Passage, and Northwest Passage [1]. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (Russian: Се́верный морско́й путь, romanized: Severnyy morskoy put, shortened to Севморпуть, Sevmorput) is a shipping route about 5,600 kilometres (3,500 mi) long.
Map of the Arctic region showing the bathymetry and the Northeast Passage, the Northern Sea Route within it, and the Northwest Passage. [1] Arctic shipping routes are the maritime paths used by vessels to navigate through parts or the entirety of the Arctic. There are three main routes that connect the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans: the ...
Throughout the 19 th century, finding a navigable route through the Northwest Passage was the proverbial ‘white whale’ of maritime adventurers and explorers.Similarly, along the northern coast ...
[that] does not always clear during the short summers", [128] whereas the route along the island's east coast regularly clears in summer [128] and was later used by Roald Amundsen in his successful navigation of the Northwest Passage. The Franklin expedition, locked in ice for two winters in Victoria Strait, was naval in nature and therefore ...
The Northeast Passage (blue) and an alternative route through the Suez Canal (red). The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP; Russian: Северо-Восточный проход, romanized: Severo-Vostochnyy prokhod, Norwegian: Nordøstpassasjen) is the shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Russia.
Northwest Passage routes. The legal status of the Northwest Passage is disputed: Canada considers it to be part of its historic internal waters. [68] The United States and most maritime nations [69] consider them to be an international strait, [70] which means that foreign vessels have right of "transit passage". [71]
Principally, the purpose of the voyage was an attempt to discover the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific north of North America. Cook's orders from the Admiralty were driven by a 1745 Act which, when extended in 1775, promised a £20,000 prize for whoever discovered the passage. [1]