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What does Northwest Passage mean?

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Proper noun
  1. Sea route through the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean.
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When this route proved overly optimistic, Champlain simply moved the Northwest Passage further west, beyond the horizon, to another waterway.
It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage.
This only causes headaches for Canada, whose government sees the Northwest Passage as a proprietary waterway, as Canadian as Lake Winnipeg.
We are not the only ones who are realizing that commercial vessel traffic will be revolutionized by the opening of the Northwest Passage.
In previous centuries, when Arctic explorers looking for the Northwest Passage got mired in ice, they had very few options.
There was mention of a cruise ship possibly going through the Canadian Northwest Passage.

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