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: -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-3: -The Northwest Passage represented a new route to the established trading nations of Asia. England called the hypothetical northern route the “Northwest Passage". The desire to establish such a route motivated much of the European exploration of both coasts of North America, also known as the New World.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Northwest Passage was long sought by European explorers to shorten the distance and time that merchant ships needed to travel from Europe to Asia. Most explorers attempted to locate a sea channel in the Arctic waters to the north of Canada.