Northwest Passage
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English
Proper noun
- (geography, nautical) The sea route through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans, between the Baffin Bay and the Beaufort Sea.
- 1981, Stan Rogers (lyrics and music), “Northwest Passage”, in Northwest Passage, Fogarty's Cove Music, →OCLC:
- Ah, for just one time / I would take the Northwest Passage / To find the hand of Franklin / Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
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Sea route connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean
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