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On August 21, 2007, the Northwest Passage became open to ships without the need of an icebreaker. According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute, this was the first time the Passage has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972. [6] [20] The Northwest Passage opened again on August 25, 2008. [21]
McClure's expedition returned after finding an ice-bound route that connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. [6] The Northwest Passage was not navigated by boat until 1906, when Roald Amundsen traversed the passage on the Gjøa. In 2014, a search team led by Parks Canada [7] located the wreck of Erebus in the eastern portion of Queen ...
"Northwest Passage" is one of the best-known songs by Canadian musician Stan Rogers.The original recording from the 1981 album of the same name is an a cappella song, featuring Rogers alone singing the verses, with Garnet Rogers, David Alan Eadie and Chris Crilly harmonizing with him in the chorus.
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]
McClure's travels, including the route of HMS Investigator. The McClure Arctic expedition, one of many attempts to find the missing Franklin expedition, was significant for being the first to successfully discover and transit the Northwest Passage, which it accomplished by both boat and sledging.
The search for the northwest passage had been undertaken repeatedly since the voyages of Henry Hudson in the early 17th century. The most significant attempt was the 1845 expedition led by John Franklin, which had disappeared, apparently without trace. Subsequent expeditions had found evidence that Franklin's two ships had become stuck in ice ...
The Rurik is moored off the island of St. Paul to load provisions for the northern voyage (Drawing: Louis Choris). The Russian Rurik Expedition ("Rurick Expedition") was a circumnavigation of the world that took place from July 30, 1815 to August 3, 1818 under the command of Otto von Kotzebue and was intended to discover and explore the Northwest Passage.
Knight was determined to find the Northwest Passage, a then-hypothetical route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian North.A Chipewyan interpreter working for Knight told him of a possible mineral-rich route across the north.