Search results for "Northwest Passage" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and Turks and Caicos Islands lie to the northwest. Haiti occupies the western ... The island of Cuba lies to the northwest across the Windward Passage ...21 KB (3,152 words) - 21:45, 31 January 2024
- Edward Parry in his voyage to find a northwestern passage to India. Throughout the mid-nineteenth century, tinned food became a status symbol ...12 KB (1,887 words) - 19:25, 25 November 2023
- and the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, have significant ... used by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The South American ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- a voyage to North America, looking for the Northwest Passage (1508), and one to repeat Magellan's voyage around the world, which ended up looking ...9 KB (1,380 words) - 04:35, 3 August 2022
- William Dietrich, Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River (New ... * Dietrich, William. 1995. Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- I of France, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of ... ships. This time, any thought of finding a passage to the Orient was forgotten ...17 KB (2,708 words) - 12:31, 6 November 2021
- leave unmistakable evidence of their passage through seafloor or continental crust. In the case of the Hawaiian hotspot, the islands themselves ...11 KB (1,444 words) - 16:21, 25 January 2023
- Mick Wall, "Northwest Passage," Q: Nirvana and the Story ... * Wall, Mick. "Northwest Passage." Q: Nirvana and the Story ...30 KB (4,642 words) - 10:14, 25 February 2023
- in this area helped pave the way for the passage of the Boldt Decision in ... of Deloria played a major role in the passage of important reform legislation ...27 KB (4,084 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- he must have had a family because of a passage in the Shoku Nihongi（続日本紀 ... This discovery, announced by the Northwest University in Xian, China ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--Northwest Fisheries Science Center ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- Cartier, who, in his search for a northwest passage to the Orient sailed ... on the St. Lawrence were enlarged for the passage of larger boats; the construction ...15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
- Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang in northwest China, the desert wasteland ... caravans. With no security for a safe passage, the Takla Makan entered ...10 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- into three portions: the northeast arm, northwest arm, and southern. This ... Cub, and Strongs Knob are in the northwest arm, and the rest are in ...23 KB (3,613 words) - 12:54, 22 January 2023
- the Islamabad Capital Territory—to the northwest of Rawalpindi and on the ... attended by thousands, celebrating the passage of his bones through Taxila ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore, near ... control of the ridge, it gave them direct passage to the Alexandra area. The ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Mackinac Straits, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. [https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/jean-nicollet ...12 KB (1,735 words) - 23:18, 21 October 2022
- in the Xinjiang and Tsinghai regions of northwest China, and another 205 ... as bäki around Lake Baikal. In one famous passage the Oirat chief, Quduqa ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- located about 545 km (340 mi) west-northwest of Yangon, Burma.Joint ... in Arakan.] Retrieved July 2, 2008. The passage of Cyclone Akash left many ...14 KB (1,970 words) - 06:52, 12 January 2024
- , was away at the war front in the northwest. Some historians say this ... === Military expansion in the northwest === [[Image:The Yongzheng Emperor ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
