The island of Cuba lies to the northwest across the Windward Passage ; to the southwest lies Jamaica, separated by the Jamaica Channel.

Puerto Rico lies east of Hispaniola across the Mona Passage.

According to Jefferson himself, one goal was to find a " direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce with Asia " ( the Northwest Passage ).

Passage across the bridge or through the tunnels is subject to a toll, depending on the kind of vehicle.

The expedition had several goals identified by Jefferson, including finding a " direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce " ( the long-sought Northwest Passage ).

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

Cuba is located west of Haiti across the Windward Passage, south of the Bahamas, south of Florida, east of Mexico, and north of Jamaica.

The Newport Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in New England, connects Newport to neighboring Conanicut Island across the East Passage of the Narragansett.

Passage of electrons between donor and acceptor releases energy, which is used to generate a proton gradient across the mitochondrial membrane by actively “ pumping ” protons into the intermembrane space, producing a thermodynamic state that has the potential to do work.

Passage across the lower Hudson River was only by ferry for centuries.

In June 1969, as the SS Manhattan traveled through the Northwest Passage, TAPS formally applied to the Interior Department for a permit to build an oil pipeline across of public land — from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.

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

To cross this wider river means following it inland to Helford where there is a ferry across to Helford Passage on the north bank.

Most of the main reservation is composed of Squaxin Island, but there is also a small part of at Kamilche, in addition to two parcels of off-reservation trust land near Kamilche, as well as a plot of across Pickering Passage from Squaxin Island and a plot of on Harstine Island, across Peale Passage.

The most south westerly point — Surf Point — is located at the channel known as South Passage across from Steep Point on its south west side.

Admiralty Island lies to the west and south, across the Stephens Passage.

Tierra del Fuego, the southern most tip of South America, lies only about 1000 km away across the Drake Passage.

The two primary routes for iceboats was between Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island and Caribou, Nova Scotia, ( sometimes combined with a stop at Pictou Island, Nova Scotia ), and across the Abegweit Passage between Cape Traverse, Prince Edward Island and Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick.

The renewed talk of a fixed link in 1985-1986, following aborted attempts at building a highway / railway causeway across Abegweit Passage in 1957 and 1965 – 1969, saw CN accelerate its attempts to withdraw railway service on Prince Edward Island.

The course follows the Straits of Magellan to the east, then south along the coast of Argentina, past Cape Horn, then directly south across the Drake Passage and on to Anvers Island.

During a voyage across the Barents Sea in search of the North East Passage in 1553, English explorer Hugh Willoughby thought he saw islands to the north, and islands called Willoughby's Land were shown on maps published by Plancius and Mercator in the 1590s and they continued to appear on maps by Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu into the 1640s.

Dawson's first play, Passage Through the Heart, debuted in 1997 at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

He has also won the Copper Basin 300 twice, the Klondike 300, the Kusko 300, and the Grand Portage Passage race in the state of Minnesota once.

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

When he came of age Aengus dispossessed the Dagda of his home, the Brú na Bóinne ( an area of the Boyne River Valley that contains the Passage tombs Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth ).

Acting on this information, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho, ( Mackenzie River ) on July 10, 1789 following it to its mouth in the hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean.

The Champlain Canal and Lake Champlain form the U. S. portion of the Lakes to Locks Passage, linking with the Hudson River and allowing navigation using the Richelieu between the St. Lawrence River and New York City and the Erie Canal.

Campbell River ( Kwak ' wala: Wiwek ̓ a ̱ m ) is a coastal city in British Columbia on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies along the important coastal Inside Passage shipping route.

The channel between Quadra Island and Campbell River is named Discovery Passage after HMS Discovery.

There is no significant land anywhere around the world at the latitudes of the Drake Passage, which is important to the unimpeded flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which carries a huge volume of water ( about 600 times the flow of the Amazon River ) through the Passage and around Antarctica.

European colonization of the Delaware River Valley ( called the Zuyd, meaning " South " River, or Lënapei Sipu at the time ) began in 1609 when a Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson first entered the river in search of the Northwest Passage.

The first European to see the rapids was Jacques Cartier, who sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1535, believing he had found the Northwest Passage.

A road, now known as the Old Passage, runs near the A403 which follows the bank of the River Severn.

In order to combat the circulating wave and undertow, in August 2007 the Province of Alberta through the Alberta Lottery fund, in conjunction with the Calgary Foundation and the City of Calgary, began construction of the Bow River Weir paddle around, named the Harvie Passage.

Mackenzie took the initiative to follow up on Pond's belief and followed this great river to its mouth ; the watercourse, now called the Mackenzie River, did in fact flow to the Northwest Passage section of the Arctic Ocean.

It continues westwards, followed by the Highway 16 and Canadian National Railway line, passes near the Exchamsiks River Provincial Park, then flows into the Dixon Entrance at Eleanor Passage, between Port Edward and Port Essington, facing De Horsey Island.

Lynn Canal runs about from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage.

* 2000-Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage

Eden Benchmarks: Beside the river there is a sculpture by Laura White, entitled ‘ Passage ’, one of the ten " Eden Benchmarks ", a series of sculptures that have been placed at intervals along the River Eden from its source in Mallerstang to the Solway Firth.

Saltash Passage ( as it has become known ) is on the Devon side of the River Tamar, opposite Saltash.

The Plains of Passage describes the journey of Ayla and Jondalar west along the Great Mother River ( the Danube ), from the home of The Mammoth Hunters ( roughly modern Ukraine ) to Jondalar's homeland ( close to Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France ).

* The Chagres: River of Westward Passage by John Easter Minter ( part of the Rivers of America Series.