A Marine Institute researcher lived an explorer’s dream over the summer, when he paddled through the Canadian Arctic. After ...

For one man to have conquered the Northwest Passage, the North Magnetic Pole, and the South Pole is almost beyond imagination, yet Roald Amundsen accomplished all three in less than 10 years in ...

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In 2014 the Nunavik became the first cargo ship to go through the Northwest Passage without an icebreaking escort ship leading the way Climate change is increasingly opening up the Northwest ...

Of all the brave Britishers who for 400 years had given freely of their treasure, courage, and enterprise to dauntless but unsuccessful attempts to negotiate the Northwest Passage, none was braver ...

The two-month expedition, inspired by historic Viking journeys, visits Greenland and crosses the storied Northwest Passage ...

The pair are now the first to have ever crossed the Northwest Passage, while self-propelled and in a single season. "As Adam ...

An adventurer from Edinburgh has set two world records by kayaking the Arctic's Northwest Passage. Mark Agnew began the 2,000 mile journey from Baffin Bay, Greenland, in July, and completed it ...

Ships on frontier-pushing missions through this Northwest Passage were crushed by moving ice or stranded for years at a time, subject to the perils of illness, scurvy, even cannibalism.

Learn more and share your thoughts with The Globe. The Northwest Passage cuts through Canada’s Arctic, forming an important shipping corridor across the top of the world. It’s also one of the ...

He was supposed to find the Northwest Passage and he had every intention of doing so. The crew turned to plans of mutiny. The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson (exhibit 1881) Tate Gallery, S0142851 Crew ...