Hudson named the river the Mauritius River and was covertly attempting to find the Northwest Passage for the Dutch East India Company.

Encouraged by Henry the Navigator and always in search of the Passage to India, and not forgetting gold and slaves, Portuguese explorers explored the African coast and ventured still farther south.

Virginia Woolf was writing and publishing her most widely-read modernist novels and essays, E. M. Forster completed A Passage to India which remains the most highly regarded novel on British imperialism in India.

Most famously, he played Dr Aziz in the stage and TV adaptation of A Passage to India in the late 1960s.

After returning to London from India, he completed his last novel, A Passage to India ( 1924 ), for which he won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Forster achieved his greatest success with A Passage to India ( 1924 ).

Forster's two best-known works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore the irreconcilability of class differences.

The characters of Mrs. Wilcox in that novel and Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India have a mystical link with the past, and a striking ability to connect with people from beyond their own circles.

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As early as 1560 or 1561, Frobisher had formed a resolution to undertake a voyage in search of a Northwest Passage as a trade route to India and China ( referred to at that time as Cathay ).

Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), and A Passage to India ( 1984 ); for bringing Charles Dickens ' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ); and for the renowned romantic drama Brief Encounter ( 1945 ).

For Lean's final film, A Passage to India ( 1984 ), he chose to both direct and edit, and the two roles were given precisely equal status in the film's credits.

After failing to get Mutiny on the Bounty into production, David Lean embarked on his last production, A Passage to India ( 1984 ), which was released to positive reviews and received two Academy Awards.

While Ryan's Daughter and A Passage to India were less successful on release, they have found wide and appreciative audiences since their release on DVD.

Lean was nominated for a total of nine Academy Awards: seven for Best Director, one for Best Adapted Screenplay, and one for Best Film Editing, the latter two being for A Passage to India.

S. M. Chanda: A Passage to India: a close look in studies in literature ( Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi 2003 )

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Sea captain and explorer Henry Hudson, in search of the mythical Northwest Passage in the service of the Dutch West India Company, anchored along the shores of Sandy Hook Bay in 1609, describing the area " a very good land to fall in with and a pleasant land to see.

Others are Bartolomeu Dias, who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope ; Vasco da Gama, who sailed directly to India from Portugal ; Ferdinand Magellan, the first to circumnavigate the Earth ; Christopher Columbus, who significantly encountered the Americas ; Jacques Cartier, who sailed for France, looking for the Northwest Passage ; and others.

To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of novels by William Golding, consisting of Rites of Passage ( 1980 ), Close Quarters ( 1987 ), and Fire Down Below ( 1989 ).

She returned to theatre ( between films ) more often in the 1950s and 1960s, playing in London and on tour in such roles as Edith Fenton in The Hat Trick ( 1950 ); Felicity, Countess of Marshwood, in Relative Values ( 1951 and 1953 ); Grace Smith in A Question of Fact ( 1953 ); Lady Yarmouth in The Night of the Ball ( 1954 ); Mrs. St. Maugham in The Chalk Garden ( 1955 – 56 ), Dame Mildred in The Bright One ( 1958 ); Mrs. Vincent in Look on Tempests ( 1960 ); Mrs. Gantry ( Bobby ) in The Bird of Time ( 1961 ); Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India ( 1962 ); Mrs Tabret in The Sacred Flame ( 1966 and 1967 ); Prue Salter in Let's All Go Down the Strand ( 1967 ); Emma Littlewood in Out of the Question ( 1968 ); Lydia in His, Hers and Theirs ( 1969 ); and others.

*** Macdonald, C., " The Social Evil: Prostitution & the Passage of the Contagious Diseases Act ( 1869 )" in Brookes B, Macdonald C. and Tennant M. ( eds ), Women in History: Essays on European Women in New Zealand ( Allen Unwin, Wellington, 1986 ).

Among them are Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Essays 1975-2001 ( MIT Press, 2004 ), the photo books Passionate Signals ( Cantz, 2005 ), In the Place of the Public: Airport Series ( Cantz, 1997 ), and Rights of Passage ( NYFA, 1995 ).

It has been speculated that this whale crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Northwest Passage, since alternative routes through the Panama Canal or Cape Horn are not contiguous to the whale's established territory.

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The Strait of Malacca joins the Pacific and the Indian Oceans on the west, and Drake Passage and the Straits of Magellan link the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean on the east.

Passage graves are distributed extensively along the Atlantic façade of Europe.

In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse Canada's Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson ), with six others in a 45-ton fishing vessel, Gjøa.

Caribbean, islands southeast of Florida, north of Venezuela, east of Puerto Rico ; between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, bordering the Virgin Islands Trough and the Anegada Passage and roughly south of the Puerto Rico Trench

Passage could be obtained across the Atlantic on returning empty lumber ships for little fare.

* Mona, Puerto Rico, an island in the Mona Passage ( from the Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea )

In 1764, he organized an expedition ( led by Admiral Vasili Chichagov ) to find the Northeast Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by sailing along the northern coast of Siberia.

strategic location relative to sea lanes between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ( Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage ); Atacama desert is one of world's driest regions

* Location relative to sea lanes between South Atlantic and South Pacific Oceans ( Strait of Magellan, Beagle Channel, Drake Passage )

Cuba lies west of the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Gulf of Mexico, south of the Straits of Florida, northwest of the Windward Passage, and northeast of the Yucatan Channel.

The Manhattan was fitted with an ice-breaking bow, powerful engines, and hardened propellers before successfully traveling the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Beaufort Sea.

It was one of Canada's busiest ferry services and was operated by Marine Atlantic across Abegweit Passage.

It was often considered the only safe way to move between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, as the Drake Passage separating Cape Horn ( the southern tip of South America ) from Antarctica is notorious for turbulent and unpredictable weather, and is frequented by icebergs and sea ice.

The age of steam brought famous achievements to Cobh, most notably the first steam ship to sail from Ireland to England ( 1821 ) and the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic ( Sirius 1838 ) which left from Passage West.

The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

* March 29-April 26 British Captain James Cook explores Alaskan coast, seeking Northwest Passage back to the Atlantic.

Fuca claimed to have explored the western coast of North America and to have found a large opening that possibly connected to the Atlantic Ocean —- the legendary Northwest Passage.

Until recently, the islands were a portion of Eurasia which remained firmly within the grip of the ice even at its smallest extent during the late summer melt season, blocking the Northeast Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific.

A visiting recreational schooner named Larinda was sunk at the wharf beside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and a harbour tour ketch Mar II was driven ashore in Eastern Passage on the opposite side of Halifax Harbour.

Geologically and geographically the Bahamas, including Andros, are not located in the Caribbean, whose northern boundary is the Windward Passage, but rather in the Atlantic Ocean.

The district includes the part of the Halifax Regional Municipality located on the Atlantic coast between Lake Charlotte and Jeddore Harbour in the east to Halifax Harbour in the west excluding the community of Dartmouth and the community of Eastern Passage.