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June 28, 2004

Northwest Passage

“The Northwest Passage did not exist, and so could not be discovered, until Europeans invented it.”

Of Maps and Men features hopeful maps of the shortest route from Europe to the Orient (hat tip to The Tiger in Winter).

The Canadian Arctic (including Hudson Bay) occupies an area of approximately one million square miles of glaciated plain, tundra, islands, sounds, straits, inlets, and passages, which are frozen and choked with ice floes and pack ice for much of the year. For 400 years explorers sought a navigable passage through its archipelago or across its land.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 28, 2004 08:42 AM

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