Dangerous passage : issues in the Arctic / Gerard Kenney.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-202) and index.

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Over the five hundred or so years that man searched for an elusive sea passage from Europe to Asia through the North American land mass, dozens of ships were lost and hundreds of mariners died. Eventually, a sea route stretching through the waters of the archipelago and along Canada's mainland Arctic coast was pieced together. But could ships navigate the Northwest Passage to the extent that it could be used as an international shipping route? Two seagoing captains and their ships -- a Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, and a Canadian of Norwegian birth, Henry Asbjorn Larsen -- answered that question.

List of Maps; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Roald Amundsen and the Gjøa, 1903-06; 1. The Silk Road and the Strait of Anian; 2. Preparing for the Great Adventure; 3. Underway at Last!; 4. History of the North Magnetic Pole; 5. The Gjøa's First Winter, 1903-04; 6. The Gjøa's Second Winter, 1904-05; 7. The Gjøa's Third Winter, 1905-06; 8. Amundsen, The Sequel; 9. Nechilli Inuit, The Sequel; PART II: Henry Asbjorn Larsen and the St. Roch, 1928-48; 10. The Early Years; 11. The St. Roch; 12. The Great Assignment, 1940-42: From West to East

13. Back Home Through the Northwest Passage, East to West, 194414. Henry Larsen, The Sequel; PART III: Canadian Sovereignty and the Environment in the Northwest Passage Are at Risk; 15. Canadian Sovereignty and the Environment in the Northwest Passage Are at Risk; 16. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS); 17. Sovereignty Is What Sovereignty Does; 18. Attacking the Issues; Appendix I; Appendix II; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; About the Author

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