Williams, Glyn Voyages of Delusion: the Quest for the Northwest...

History: Review of New Books;  June 22, 2003 ;   Smith, Tony;   456 words ......gold and silver at the end of the Northwest Passage with the tough, competent realists...Arctic experience, the lure of the Northwest Passage and its supposed riches was too much...twenty year campaign to find the Northwest Passage. Combining fireside geography and...

Northwest Passage: It's one of life's last genuine adventures

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 23, 1986 ;   Shirley Slater; Harry Basch;   787 words ......first passenger-ship crossing of the Northwest Passage from west to east, and we are looking...many explorers searching for the Northwest Passage saw a similar wall of ice ahead and...we turn back. Sailing through the Northwest Passage may well be the last great adventure...

NORTHWEST PASSAGE THE ISSUE: CANADA TALKS ABOUT ENFORCING ITS CLAIM. THE...

Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current);  August 17, 2007 ;     392 words ......to enforce Canada's claim to the Northwest Passage, which links the North Atlantic and...S. Navy has always considered the Northwest Passage part of international waters, open...By 2025, some experts predict, the Northwest Passage may be navigable year-round. The...

Icy Northwest Passage feels heat of change // Oil, gas discoveries jar...

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 12, 1990 ;     706 words ...All along its rugged course, the Northwest Passage, the legendary polar route between...of the few seamen to traverse the Northwest Passage. Time and again, ice jammed between...Amundsen and a crew of six threaded the Northwest Passage from east to west in the 70-foot...

Voyages of Delusion. The Quest for the Northwest Passage

The Virginia Quarterly Review;  October 1, 2003 ;   Anonymous;   170 words ......Delusion. The Quest for the Northwest Passage, by Glyn Williams. The...route through America, a Northwest Passage, had enticed seamen as...expeditions to find the Northwest Passage multiplied. The first...

Voyages of Delusion: the Quest for the Northwest Passage.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History;  August 1, 2004 ;   Coates, Ken;   787 words ...Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage, by Glyn Williams. New Haven, Yale...to identify a commercially viable Northwest Passage had ended in despair, hardship, and...the region, American designs on the Northwest Passage, and the uneasy Canadian hold on...

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

Young Students Learning Library;      300 words ......search for hundreds of years for a ``Northwest Passage' ' around North America. The English...Frobisher tried several times to find the Northwest Passage during the 1570s. He explored the...Canadian Mounted Police traversed the Northwest Passage in both directions. In 1969, a huge...

ANALYSIS: NORTHWEST PASSAGE OPENING SLOWLY

United Press International;  April 24, 2002 ;     787 words ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Northwest Passage opening slowly Apr 24, 2002...means that the legendary Northwest Passage, which intrepid seafarers...can soon begin using the Northwest Passage rather than the Panama Canal...

Shipping shortcut.(GRAPH IT/OCEANS)(the Northwest Passage)(Brief article)

Science World;  January 14, 2008 ;   Montgomery, Heather;   231 words ......trip from Europe to Asia through the Northwest Passage would be 7,408 km (4,000 nautical...For centuries, explorers sought the Northwest Passage as a shortcut for trade passing between...the past 10 years and clearing the Northwest Passage. The extra melted area was three...

Analysis: Northwest Passage opening slowly.

United Press International;  April 24, 2002 ;     787 words ......ice also means that the legendary Northwest Passage, which intrepid seafarers had hunted...believe they can soon begin using the Northwest Passage rather than the Panama Canal to get...they may guide vessels through the Northwest Passage, with an icebreaker at the head of...

The northwest passage in transit

International Journal;  April 1, 1999 ;   Griffiths, Franklyn;   787 words ......CONSTRUCTION OF SOUTHERN MINDS, the Northwest Passage has long been the site of exploration...I am about to consider is not the Northwest Passage and what is being done there, but...discern. In an era of global change the Northwest Passage is not exempt: it and most everything...

Northwest Passage High School in Coon Rapids has new home, new philosophy:...

Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN);  October 10, 2007 ;     557 words ......Waters -- all for high school credit. Northwest Passage High School in Coon Rapids is thriving...the school also changed its name to Northwest Passage. The school's philosophy is based...left Andover High School to attend Northwest Passage and is now in her second semester...

Arctic thaw opening up lucrative shipping route.(World)(Northwest Passage)

The Christian Science Monitor;  June 7, 2000 ;     787 words ......a possible maritime route - the Northwest Passage - is opening up. In the next couple...possibility of regular shipping through the Northwest Passage as a scenario that has been mentioned...number of elements converging to make Northwest Passage shipping likelier: new technological...

Race to conquer the northwest passage

Lincolnshire Echo;  July 17, 2007 ;     403 words ......nearly 165 years ago. The Arctic Northwest Passage - potentially one of the world's...claimed every single inch of that Northwest Passage from the first probe into it, to...which is politically unstable. "The Northwest Passage is much wider and faster and belongs...

Nature opens the Northwest Passage.

Alberta Report;  September 25, 2000 ;   COSH, COLBY;   718 words ......the 1940-42 double crossing of the Northwest Passage by the original St. Roch, which succeeded...main challenge to shipping in the Northwest Passage, the climate change could herald...difficult, dangerous or expensive, the Northwest Passage would be the natural alternative...