View Roald Amundsen Northwest Passage Route PNG. In his diary he wrote: 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.

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It was roald amundsen that first successfully traveled through the passage by ship in 1902. Robert mcclure mapped the northwest passage. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

The icy routes around cape horn may have been navigated four centuries ago, but the northwest passage remained uncrossed by boat until 1906.

The content used in this map is from pbs. Roald amundsen was a norwegian explorer. Amundsen had gained international fame two decades earlier when he had searched for the elusive northwest passage from baffin bay and lancaster in december 1911, amundsen and his party became the first to trek to the south pole. Source for information on the northwest passage, sought by europeans for 400 years, is found and traversed by ship by roald amundsen: