* 1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

* 1585 – John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in search of the Northwest Passage.

* 1794 – Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.

A serious diplomatic debate is whether the Northwest Passage is in international waters or under Canadian jurisdiction.

In 1609 Henry Hudson, on behalf of the VOC, outwitted his competitors by landing on the coast of New England in his quest for the Northwest Passage to Asia.

In 1577 Oxford invested £ 25 in the second of Martin Frobisher ’ s expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage.

Vancouver determined that the Northwest Passage did not exist at the latitudes that had long been suggested.

* " Gate to the Northwest Passage "; a commemorative statue by Vancouver artist Alan Chung Hung was commissioned by Parks Canada and installed at the mouth of False Creek in Vanier Park near the Vancouver Maritime Museum in 1980.

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.

There has been gradual melting and recession of Arctic sea ice with extreme loss in 2007 rendering the Northwest Passage " fully navigable ".

* 1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

* 1903 – Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage, leaving Oslo, Norway.

He has been called the " father of Eskimology " and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.

He was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.

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 ).

They did not find the Northwest Passage.

*, tanker constructed to pass the Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage routes

The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia, as in 1493 to defuse trade disputes, Pope Alexander VI split the discovered world in two between Spain and Portugal ; thus France, the Netherlands, and England were left without a sea route to Asia, either via Africa or South America, unless their ships defied the ban and explored such waters regardless ( they did, and the ban became unenforceable ).

England called the hypothetical northern route the " Northwest Passage ".

From west to east the Northwest Passage runs through the Bering Strait ( separating Russia and Alaska ), Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, and then through several waterways that go through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

On August 21, 2007, the Northwest Passage became open to ships without the need of an icebreaker.

The Northwest Passage opened again on August 25, 2008.

Thawing ocean or melting ice simultaneously opened up the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route ( Northeast Passage ), making it possible to sail around the Arctic ice cap.

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

Greek ἄβαξ itself is probably a borrowing of a Northwest Semitic, perhaps Phoenician, word akin to Hebrew ʾābāq ( אבק ), " dust " ( since dust strewn on wooden boards to draw figures in ).

The Hattians spoke a Northwest Caucasian Language, and there is debate as to whether the Hurrian language was also of this group, or a Language Isolate.

As well Alberta is connected to the TasnCanada pipeline system ( natural gas ) to Eastern Canada, the Northern Border Pipeline ( gas ), Alliance Pipeline ( gas ) and Enbridge Pipeline System ( oil ) to the Eastern United States, the Gas Transmission Northwest and Northwest Pipeline ( gas ) to the Western United States, and the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station ( electric power ) to Saskatchewan.

Another example is when a few passengers and flight attendants teamed up to subdue Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who attempted to detonate explosives sewn into his underwear aboard Northwest Flight 253 on December 25, 2009.

* Bigfoot also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that cryptozoologists believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

In many parts of the country, food is prepared differently and different kinds of foods are made ; this includes to a smaller degree food from pre-Columbian times, as in the Northwest.

The region is closely connected to Seattle and the American Pacific Northwest economically and culturally.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

British Columbia is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, by the U. S. state of Alaska on the northwest as well as parts of the west, on the north by the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, on the east by the province of Alberta, and on the south by the U. S. states of Washington, Idaho, and Montana.

Bigfoot, also known as sasquatch, is the name given to an ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

The same provision is the basis for the reception date of English law in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut.

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

Sahrawi-Moorish society in Northwest Africa was traditionally ( and still is, to some extent ) stratified into several tribal classes, with the Hassane warrior tribes ruling and extracting tribute-horma-from the subservient Znaga tribes.

One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).