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Shipping shortcut.(GRAPH IT/OCEANS)(the Northwest Passage)(Brief article)
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Meltdown: A trip from Europe to Asia through the Northwest Passage would be 7,408 km (4,000 nautical mi) shorter than one through the Panama Canal.
For centuries, explorers sought the Northwest Passage as a shortcut for trade passing between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Most expeditions were thwarted by impassable ice covering the Arctic Ocean. That is until last September, when the once-fabled Passage was ice-free for the first time in recent history.
Each summer, sea ice in the Arctic melts to its annual minimum. This year it hit a record low of 4.28 million square kilometers (1.65 million square miles)--having lost 10 times more ice than the average yearly amount for the past 10 years and clearing the Northwest Passage. "The ...
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- Magazine article from: The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History Bown, Stephen April 1, 2004 700+ words
...Walked to the Arctic Ocean. There is...search for the Northwest Passage will have read...searching for a Northwest Passage in 1819-1823...evidence of a Northwest Passage and the rumoured...near the Arctic Ocean, at Bloody...
- NORTHWEST PASSAGE
- Reference information from: Young Students Learning Library January 1, 1996 700+ words
...years for a ``Northwest Passage' ' around North...Police traversed the Northwest Passage in both directions...day open up the Northwest Passage commercially. FIND...Amundsen, Roald; Arctic Ocean; Exploration...
- CANADIAN DEFENSE PLAN CALLS FOR NUCLEAR SUBS 15-YEAR PROPOSAL CHALLENGES US...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Kenneth Freed, Los Angeles Times June 6, 1987 700+ words
...They would replace Canada's three diesel-powered submarines. Canada claims that region of the Arctic Ocean that embraces the Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The United States holds that the passage is an international...
- Year on the ice: the SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean)/JOIS...
- Magazine article from: Arctic Welch, Harold E. September 1, 1998 700+ words
...us frozen into the Arctic Ocean aboard the Canadiar...Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean), the largest project...the biology of the Arctic Ocean. The SHEBA head office...Laurent moved through the Northwest Passage in September, arriving...
- On thin ice: water rights and resource disputes in the Arctic Ocean.(ANDREW...
- Magazine article from: Journal of International Affairs Gunitskiy, Vsevolod March 22, 2008 700+ words
...and risks of access. (3) In 2007, the long-sought Northwest Passage, which could potentially cut a journey from Europe to Asia...via the 1,100-mile Lomonosov Ridge, which bisects the Arctic Ocean, stretching between Siberia and Canada's Ellesmere Island...
- Ocean Conservation Expedition Funded by Rockefeller Family and Tiffany...
- Newspaper article from: Global Warming Focus August 10, 2009 700+ words
...the ice-filled Northwest Passage after travelling...travelled through the Northwest Passage in the past 100...the warming of the Arctic Ocean and the global climate...frozen waters of the Northwest Passage for the next four...
- Ocean Conservation Expedition Funded by Rockefeller Family and Tiffany...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 28, 2009 700+ words
...the ice-filled Northwest Passage after travelling...travelled through the Northwest Passage in the past 100...the warming of the Arctic Ocean and the global climate...frozen waters of the Northwest Passage for the next four...
- Plying a fabled waterway.(as Arctic waters warm, Northwest Passage becomes...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Appenzeller, Tim August 28, 2000 700+ words
...These days, the fierce, fabled Northwest Passage can be a cakewalk. In the summers...floating ice that covers the Arctic Ocean almost from edge to edge is...negotiate the once impassable Northwest Passage. Cold facts. Arctic researchers...
