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A List of the Full Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage 1903 to 2006

by John MacFarlane (1990 – Revised 1995, 2011 & 2012)

The RCMP schooner St. Roch and HMCS Labrador together in Esquimalt Harbour after each had made successful transits of the Northwest Passage - 10 years apart.

Transiting the North West Passage: Any vessel crossing both the entry to the Bering Strait and Davis Strait (or vice versa) is deemed to have made a full transit of the Northwest Passage.

Souvenir watch from the 1993 west to east transit of the North West Passage by the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov carrying passengers. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Field.)

Sources:

• J.M. MacFarlane (1992) Northwest Passage Challengers. In Resolution. Spring Issue. Maritime Museum of British Columbia;
• Sale, Richard (2002);
• Vaughan, Richard (1994);
• Lalor, William G. (1959) Submarine Through The North Pole. In The National Geographic. Vol. CXV, No. 1 January 1959;
• Sven Johansson Victoria BC;
• Struzik, Edward. (1991);
• Storrs, A.H.G. and T.C. Pullen. (1970);
• Smith, William D. (1970);
• Robinson, J. Lewis. (1945);
• Robertson, O.C.S. (1964);
• Rasmussen, Knud (1927);
• Pullen, T.C. & C. Swithenbank (1990);
• Pharand, D. (1984);
• Nuligak (1966);
• McKinlay, William Laird. (1976);
• McGrath, Robin (1989);
• Marshall, C.J. (1958);
• MacInnis, Jeff (1989);
• Larsen, Henry A. (1954);
• Larsen, Henry A., Frank Sheer & Edward Omholt-Jensen (1967);
• Kemp, Peter (Ed.) (1976);
• Keating, Bern (1970);
• Harding, Les (1991);
• Hancock, Lyn, (1974);
• French, Alice (1976);
• Fillmore, Stanley and R.W. Sandilands (1983);
• de Roos, Willy (1977);
• de Poncins, Gontrans (1954);
• Coast Guard Northern Arctic Operations Division (1991)

To quote from this article please cite:

MacFarlane, John M. (1990 – Revised 1995, 2011 & 2012) Full Transits of the Canadian Northwest Passage. Nauticapedia.ca 2012. http://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/NWP_Fulltransits.php

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