Brazilian navigator Tamara Klink told AFP she encountered "very little" sea ice on her solo sail through the Northwest Passage—a rare feat that would have been impossible without an icebreaker ship ...

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SPOONER — The Wisconsin Northwest Heritage Passage (WNHP), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) arts advocacy organization, is proud to announce the recipients of its 2026 grant program, dedicated to supporting art ...

It takes two words to clear a shipboard dining room: “Polar bear.” The lunchtime loudspeaker announcement from Adventure Canada expedition leader Julie Bernier had us scrambling for cameras and ...

Sailing the historic Northwest Passage to Greenland is no easy feat—facing icy waters, unpredictable weather, and a treacherous route, but the journey was one for the ages. Pentagon removes key ...

The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region. The Inuit of the far north helped ...

Unlike the leader of the doomed Franklin expedition, Roald Amundsen delighted in getting to know and learning from the Inuit. By Norimitsu Onishi Reporting from Gjoa Haven, Canada The doomed Franklin ...

Who could have guessed that a relatively young, small cruise ship would be the one to achieve a historic feat, the 100th passenger transit ever recorded of the Northwest Passage. Even without this ...

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The Northwest Passage is a route brimming with history, intrigue, and challenge. Spanning 900 miles from Baffin Island all the way to the Beaufort Sea, it weaves through an archipelago of some 36,000 ...

From 1975: Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington and Frank Church of Idaho spoke on the third and final day of the dedication of the “Northwest Passage” – that is, the Snake River dams and seaway.

In 2022, Mark Synnott set sail from his home in Maine to complete the Northwest Passage, the legendary route through the Arctic that connects the Atlantic and Pacific. Synnott wanted to retrace the ...