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The '''[[Northwest Passage]]''' is a long-sought water route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans north of the [[North America|North American]] mainland. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, [[Europe|European]] explorers, particularly the [[United Kingdom|British]], made numerous attempts to discover such a route north and west, through (by river) or around (by sea) North America. Captain [[John Smith]], for example, sailed up the [[Chesapeake Bay]] from [[Jamestown, Virgina|Jamestown]] in the early 1600s looking for a river that led to the Passage, but by the early 1800s expeditions by [[Samuel Hearne]] and [[Lewis and Clark]] had proved there was no navigable water route through the continent of North America, so the theory was shifted northward, to be an all-sea route through the Arctic Archipelago around the north of [[Canada]]. The earliest of the explorations were based on a mixture of legend, conjecture, and wishful thinking, but later expeditions built on what was learned and gradually extended their maps, at first of North America itself and then of Arctic America in particular. <font size=1>[ [[Northwest Passage|'''more...''']] ]</font> | |||
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Article of the Week [ about ]The Northwest Passage is a long-sought water route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans north of the North American mainland. Between the 16th and 19th centuries, European explorers, particularly the British, made numerous attempts to discover such a route north and west, through (by river) or around (by sea) North America. Captain John Smith, for example, sailed up the Chesapeake Bay from Jamestown in the early 1600s looking for a river that led to the Passage, but by the early 1800s expeditions by Samuel Hearne and Lewis and Clark had proved there was no navigable water route through the continent of North America, so the theory was shifted northward, to be an all-sea route through the Arctic Archipelago around the north of Canada. The earliest of the explorations were based on a mixture of legend, conjecture, and wishful thinking, but later expeditions built on what was learned and gradually extended their maps, at first of North America itself and then of Arctic America in particular. [ more... ]
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