USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Northwest Passage (NWP) is a shipping route that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and makes shipping shorter and cheaper for companies travelling from Asia to North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -Northwest Passage, historical sea passage of the North American continent. It represents centuries of effort to find a route westward from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Archipelago of what became Canada.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Northwest Passage spans roughly 900 miles from the North Atlantic north of Canada’s Baffin Island in the east to the Beaufort Sea north of the U.S. state of Alaska in the west. It’s located entirely within the Arctic Circle, less than 1, 200 miles from the North [JR1] .

Detailed explanation-4: -The Northeast Passage (abbreviated as NEP) is the shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Russia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway is a deep draft waterway extending 3, 700 km (2, 340 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean to the head of the Great Lakes, in the heart of North America.