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northwest passage


  • n  a water route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America; Europeans since the 16th century had searched for a short route to the Far East before it was successfully traversed by Roald Amundsen (1903-1906)
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  • Northern Pass land grab must be blocked
    In October 2010, New Hampshire residents woke up to find high-voltage transmission route lines drawn across maps of their properties by a project with a name that sounded vaguely like "Northwest Passage," the fabled lucrative trade route from Europe to...
    July 3, 2013 - Portsmouth Herald

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