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[[Image:northerncanmap.jpg|right|150px|1904 map of northern Canada showing the area of the Passage]] | [[Image:northerncanmap.jpg|right|150px|1904 map of northern Canada showing the area of the Passage]] | ||
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 | 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. 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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