The four-century search for a northwest passage had begun ... Bellot Strait, situated on the 72nd parallel 400 miles inside the Arctic Circle, is also just 150 miles north of the North Magnetic ...

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

400km from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories to Kugluktuk in the Northwest Passage. “Over the years, I’ve slowly been filling in the wilderness, drawing lines on the map of ...

Once inside the passage ... very success of this trip depends on man-made global warming to keep the Northwest Passage free from ice too thick for his boat to break through.

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole ...

Tony Dauksza became the first person to traverse the Northwest Passage in anything other than a ship. He completed the 3,200-mile journey over the course of six summers on a solo canoe expedition. My ...

A surging supply of thick sea ice — fragmenting due to the warming effects of climate change — is shortening the shipping season through the Northwest Passage, a new study has found.