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| | The Northern Lights Route - Willem Barentsz |
 | | By 1595, the Dutch believed that they had found the Northeast Passage and sent out another expedition with Barents. |
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http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/wbarentsz.htm
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| | Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project History Opening of the Northeast Passage |
| | Later, Petersen organized Austro-Hungarian (because Germany was at war with France) expeditions in the northern Barents Sea, which were led by Karl Weyprecht and Julius von Payer, and discovered the Franz Josef Land archipelago in 1873. | | | The theory of an 'Open Polar Sea' was revived in the 1850s by the eminent German geographer August Petermann. | | | Petermann rejected the Kane Basin approach, leading to the German North Polar Expeditions in 1868 and 1869 along northeast Greenland, which were led by Karl Koldewey. |
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http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/history/history_nepassage.html
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| | Henry Hudson's Second Voyage, 1608: The Northeast Passage |
| | He was convinced there was a sea passage, a belief shared by his contemporary geographers and mapmakers Mercator and Ortelius. | | | The founding governor of the Muscovy Company, Sebastian Cabot, had also believed in the existence of this passage and had organized several unsuccessful expeditions to search for it, before is death in 1577. | | | Although he recorded in his journal his belief that a passage lay through the Furious Overfall, he headed back to London. |
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http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson_02.htm
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| | The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries ... |
| | This discovery of a continent (fourteen months before Columbus discovered the main land) caused the explorers little exultation, although the British claim to the thirteen colonies was primarily based thereon. | | | French expeditions, under Verazzani (1523) and Cartier (1524) were equally unsuccessful in their search for the north-west passage. | | | Reasoning from this new information Gerard Mer-cator, the famous geographer and map-maker of those days, claimed that a short passage beyond the limit already reached by navigators would carry them to Japan and China. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/gc/mtfgc/09127/09127.sgm
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| | The Mountain Ear |
| | Showing involvement and support of organizations such as Northeast Passage has a tangible value in enhancing the image of a business and should not just be given away,” said Gray. | | | Of the people who skied in the Highland Loppet on sit-skis, two were former Paralympians, who could (and did) out-ski many of the able-bodied ski tourers in the group. | | | At least that’s what the folks would say at Northeast Passage, a non-profit organization based at the University of New Hampshire and dedicated to enabling people with disabilities to participate in sports and recreation — like skiing. |
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http://www.mountainear.com/Feature/FeatureStories/K5RKL0.nclk
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| | Hudson again found his way blocked by ice. | | | After these failures, England would no longer fund any eastern voyages. | | | This passage was a rumored waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans east across the Arctic coastline of northern Europe. |
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http://www.sfsocialstudies.com/BAN/u2/hudson.html
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| | Northeast Passage: Strengthening the Empowerment Process |
| | Northeast Passage is a small non-profit organization that believes in the benefits of leisure to actualize one's life. | | | Northeast Passage is a non-profit organization founded on grass-roots support and led by a participant driven Board of Directors. | | | Northeast Passage was founded on the premise that leisure is based on freedom of choice, and that everyone must have a sense of control and choice in their leisure. |
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http://www.lin.ca/resource/html/Vol24/v24n1a5.htm
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| | On the second voyage, with the Griper being replaced by the more manoeuvrable Fury, Parry tried again to find a passage, this time by Hudson’s Bay and passed a second winter at Igloolik, also attempting to meet up with Franklin’s overland expedition. | | | We cannot find any record of either the two men or a French expedition over the Pole/through the Passage. | | | Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; Performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty’s Ships Fury and Hecla. |
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http://explbooks.co.uk/catalogue.htm
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| | Northeast Passage: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The motivation to navigate the Northeast Passage was initially economical. | | | Most of these attempts were directed at seeking a Northwest Passage. | | | This route, known as Mangazeya seaway, after its eastern terminus, the trade depot of Mangazeya, was an early precursor to the Northern Sea Route. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/northern-sea-route
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| | University of Delaware: TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: Arctic Exploration |
| | While discovering a passage remained a principle motivation, other factors began to draw expeditions of ships, reinforced against the crushing power of the polar ice, to these desolate regions, including scientific inquiry, the discovery of the North Pole, and even decade long search for the ill-fated Franklin expedition. | | | Hugh Willoughby had been the first to attempt a northeast passage in 1553, and after 326 years of intermittent effort, the northeast passage was finally accomplished without loss of a single life and without damage to the vessel. | | | Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage... |
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http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/voyages/arctic.htm
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| | Global warming opens Northeast Passage |
| | The Northeast Passage, that eluded seafarers for centuries, has become more accessible thanks to global warming and freak winds to such an extent that german explorers claim to have become the first navigators to sail unaided in a yacht along the Russian coast from Mermansk to the Bering Straits. | | | The first voyage through the northeast passage was not made until 1878-79, by the Swede Nils Nordenskjöld. | | | Fuchs had tried on two previous occasions to sail the route, in 1992 and 1994. |
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http://www.rin.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_38483
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| | Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project History Age of Exploration |
| | A number of expeditions sought such routes in the 1500-1700s, which resulted in the discovery of much of northern North America, but no viable passage. | | | In a 15-year timespan, all Siberian river estuaries from Khatanga to Kolyma had been discovered and a large part of the Northeast Passage from the White Sea to Kolyma estuary had been covered. | | | The Dutch navigator William Barents led three expeditions east of Novaya Zemlya, and on the third expedition in 1596 claimed Spitsbergen. |
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http://www.whoi.edu/beaufortgyre/history/history_exploration.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Northwest Passage (Arctic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | demonstrated that the American continents were a true barrier to a short route to East Asia, there still remained hope that a natural passage would be found leading directly through the barrier. | | | Proof of the existence of the passage in the mid-1800s only revealed how difficult its transit would be, and it was not until the early 20th cent. | | | The Northwest Passage, however, remained the most important goal, and the search for the passage continued even though at that time such a route had no commercial value. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/N/NWPass.html
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| | The search for a Northwest Passage |
| | He sailed farther north than any other European had in a recorded voyage and explored what is now Spitsbergen and other islands in the Arctic Ocean. | | | Jacques Cartier (zhahk kahr TYAY), a French explorer, also failed to find a passage during two voyages he made from 1534 to 1536. | | | However, Cartier became the first European to see the St. Lawrence River in what is now Canada and helped establish French claims to this region. |
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http://www.worldbook.com/features/explorers/html/age_search.html
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| | The search for the Northeast Passage. (from Hudson, Henry) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | historical sea passage of the North American continent, representing centuries of effort to find a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic archipelago of what became Canada. | | | Such a passage—a shortcut northward from the east coast of Europe and thence either eastward over the top of Europe and Asia or westward over the... | | | In the spring of 1607, sailing for the Muscovy Company, Hudson, his son John, and 10 companions set forth “for to discover a Passage by the North Pole to Japan and China.” Believing that he would find an ice-free sea around the North Pole, Hudson struck out northward. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-3342?tocId=3342
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| | UNH's Northeast Passage Takes Hikers to First Accessible Hut |
| | There was no carrying, as critics said would be necessary. | | | After almost a year of planning, and with help from We Media, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, along with other sponsors, the group of 25 hikers set off to tackle the Gale River Trail. | | | But, while it was exhausting for everybody, Gravink said, "even in the final hours...there was nobody who wanted to be anywhere else...None of these guys would have been there if they didn't absolutely love being in the woods. |
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http://www.unh.edu/news/news_releases/2000/august%20/sk_20000824NEpassage.html
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| | Contexts -- Geography -- Northern Passage |
| | Vitus Bering led the expeditions, carried out by nearly a thousand men, many of whom died from cold, scurvy, or other accidents. | | | Samuel Hearne set out on a two-year walking expedition, which took him as far as the shore of the Arctic Ocean, but he found no passage. | | | The passage was discovered only in the 1850s by |
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http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.english.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/Contexts/passage.html
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| | In this Forfeiture Order (``Order''), we issue a monetary forfeiture in the amount of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) against Northeast Passage Corporation (``NEPC'') for willful violation of Sections 17.4(a) and 1.89(b) of the Commission's Rules (``Rules'').1 The noted violations involve NEPC's failure to register its antenna structure and failure to respond to Commission correspondence. | | | On March 22, 2001, the Commission's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Office released a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (``NAL'') in the amount of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) to NEPC.2 NEPC has not filed a response to the NAL. | | | Payment of the forfeiture shall be made in the manner provided for in Section 1.80 of the Rules5 within 30 days of the release of this Order. |
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http://www.fcc.gov/eb/Orders/2001/da011747.txt
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| | Sources and Links to information about Henry Hudson |
| | Arctic Heroes: Facts and incidents of Arctic explorations from the earliest voyages to the discovery of the fate of Sir John Franklin, embracing sketches of commercial and religious results, Zachariah A. Mudge, Nelson and Phillips, NY, 1875. | | | Reprinted in 1927 by J.M. Dent and Sons, Toronto. | | | The captain of Emmanuel, one of the ships on Frobisher's 1578 expedition, was sailing south of Greenland, and spotted an island that had never been seen before, around 57 N. It was soon added to new maps. |
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| | Explorers for Holland |
| | Hudson made two attempts to find the Northeast Passage over Europe but failed as Barents had. | | | Barents's first attempt to find the Northeast Passage in 1594 was not successful. | | | While they were the main ones, there was also a much smaller country involved in the search. |
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http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_33_188.html
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| | WMTW.com - WMTW - Northeast Passage’s Mountains to Marshes Trilogy of Challenge |
| | Click here for the privacy policy, terms of use. | | | The Mountains to Marshes Trilogy of Challenge has been created by, and benefits, the Northeast Passage organization, a program that strives to create environments where individuals with disabilities can recreate with the same freedom of choice, quality of life and independence as their non-disabled peers. | | | Northeast Passage’s Mountains to Marshes Trilogy of Challenge |
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http://www.wmtw.com/station/4208848/detail.html
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| | Northeast Passage Lyrics - Unknown |
| | To find a Jewish princess reaching for my wallet thin, | | | Like them I left a single life and threw it all away | | | To seek a northeast passage I'll never try again |
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http://www.lyrics007.com/Unknown%20Lyrics/Northeast%20Passage%20Lyrics.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Northeast Passage |
| | Northeast Passage, water route that extends from Europe's North Sea, along the Arctic coast of Asia, and through the Bering Sea to the Pacific Ocean. | | | The British began the quest for the passage in 1553 with an expedition commanded by the navigator Sir Hugh Willoughby, who sighted Novaya Zemlya and reached Saamiland, where he died. | | | MSN Encarta - Search View - Northeast Passage |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761563109__1/Northeast_Passage.html
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| | The Northern Lights Route - Northeast Passage |
| | Following several attempts by Willem Barentzs in the 1590s, a long time passed before anyone attempted to force their way through the Northeast Passage. | | | Their vessel had to be abandoned there, but the expedition members managed to save themselves by reaching Novaya Zemlya before Russian hunting vessels returned them to Vardø. | | | Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) had thoroughly prepared for his expedition by having taken several preliminary voyages before leaving on the Vega, in 1878, to push through the Northeast Passage. |
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http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/northeast.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Northeast Passage |
| | Northeast Passage, water route that extends from Europe's North Sea, along the Arctic coast of Asia, and through the Bering Sea to the Pacific Ocean.... | | | Subsequent Arctic exploration was largely motivated by the European need for sea routes to East Asia—the Northeast Passage along northern Asia and the... | | | Search for books about your topic, "Northeast Passage" |
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http://beta.encarta.msn.com/Northeast_Passage.html
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| | Willamette Week Online Screen REVIEW Brave New World |
| | NorthEast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream | | | The person whose story would be told was Nikki Williams, who came to Swart's attention through Habitat for Humanity, the nonprofit organization that helps people buy their own homes. | | | A single mother raising a daughter, while seemingly waging a one-woman war to rid her block of dope dealers--Swart and Wolf could not have asked for a better axis for their documentary. |
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http://www.willametteweek.com/story.php?story=2976
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| | Hampton Union Local Sports News: Northeast Passage creates a setting for disabled athletes |
| | Carr said programs such as Northeast Passage mean a lot to those involved because it shows them they are still capable of doing things they love. | | | "This has been great," Northeast Passage Program Coordinator and New Hampshire coach Tom Carr said. | | | Northeast Passage is a sport and recreation program for disabled people. |
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/hampton/01112005/sports/58542.htm
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| | Northeast Passage holds adaptive paddling certification course |
| | This course has been taught across the country for the past 14 years. | | | A service and research branch of the UNH School of Health and Human Services - Department of Recreation Management and Policy, Northeast Passage is an independently funded, not-for-profit organization. | | | For more information call Crystal Chalich of Northeast Passage at 2-0070. |
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http://www.unh.edu/news/campusjournal/2004/august/080604nep.html
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| | Expanding sponsorship helps Northeast Passage climb mountains - The New Hampshire - News |
| | This was the first year the organization was able get commercial sponsors like Handi-coach, Fischer Scientific and Granite State Independent Living. | | | According to David Lee, the program's coordinator, the money will go to helping Northeast Passage provide numerous services to disabled people from all over New England in order to fulfill their mission to help people overcome the metaphorical mountains in their lives. | | | All he has are his arms, which helped him complete the "Three Notch Disabled Cycling Expedition," a 100-mile, three-day trip that took him and other participants up, over, down and around New Hampshire's White Mountains this Sept. 13th, 14th and 15th. |
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http://www.tnhonline.com/news/2004/09/24/News/Expanding.Sponsorship.Helps.Northeast.Passage.Climb.Mountains-732673.shtml
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| | Big Apple History . Early New York . Henry Hudson PBS KIDS GO! |
| | The companies knew that if they could find a northeastern shortcut, they could beat the competition, and also cut out the middlemen who controlled most of the trade on the existing route. | | | Hudson then sailed down the coast searching for a northwest passage across the North American continent. | | | But he soon realized that, yet again, he had failed to find the northeast passage he sought, and he turned back. |
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http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/early/topic1.html
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| | NORTHEAST PASSAGE works to create an environment where individuals with disabilities can recreate with the same freedom of choice and independence as their able-bodied peers. | | | Established in January of 1990 as a nonprofit organization, Northeast Passage has received numerous awards from several organizations including the Federal Department of Education as an innovative Recreation Program Design for Individuals with Disabilities. | | | All individuals, disabled or able-bodied, should have the freedom of recreational choices and opportunities to connect with themselves, their families, friends, community and nature. |
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http://www.nyc.gov/html/sports/html/nepassage.html
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| | Arctic Exploration |
| | Robert E. Peary reportedly won the race to be the first at the North Pole in 1909, but this claim is disputed. | | | Roald Amundsen, who went through the Northwest Passage (1903-6), also went through the Northeast Passage (1918-20). | | | The Northeast Passage was finally navigated in 1879 by Nils A. Nordenskjöld. |
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http://www.uvm.edu/~kyager/dreamweaver/exploration.html
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| | Nordenskjöld, Nils Adolf Erik, Baron on Encyclopedia.com |
| | He served as geologist on several expeditions to Spitsbergen under Otto Torrell, the noted Swedish geologist, on one of which he found plant fossils of the Tertiary period. | | | After 1872 he became interested in discovering the Northeast Passage as a possible route of trade. | | | He reached Novaya Zemlya, crossed the Kara Sea, and ascended (1875) the Yenisei River, which he explored again in 1876. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/N/NordnskN1A1E1.asp
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| | Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, by Richard Hakluyt (chapter154) |
| | The passage vnto Cathay by the Northeast (as he declareth the matter, albeit without arte, yet very aptly, as you may well perceiue, which I request you diligently to consider) is without doubt very short and easie. | | | This very man himselfe hath trauelled to the riuer of Ob, both by land, through the countreys of the Samoeds, and of Sibier, and also by Sea, along the coast of the riuer Pechora Eastward. |
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http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/h/hakluyt/voyages/chapter154.html
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| | You will receive some grenade and infantry units. | | | Get the 3 delegates out and run to the southern passage. | | | Now quickly move left and shoot open the fence around the research buildings. |
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http://www.planetcnc.com/obelisk/text/cov5.txt
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| | Henry Hudson |
| | In 1610 he set off in search of the Northwest Passage in the ship "Discovery", sailing through treacherous Arctic waters and into what is now known as Hudson Bay. | | | 1607: He attempted to find a passage north across the Pole. | | | However, a bay, a strait and a river were named after him. |
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http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-hudson.htm
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| | The Northeast passage, not having been properly excavated and archaeologically examined, has been filled in s to provide a walkway and to enable JHT to extend utility service lines and pipes through to St. Mary's Hall - which is all alien quangos really care about. | | | Below: - October/November 2003 - Looking North - JHT's pitiful inadequate excuse for an archaeological excavation of the NE Flanking Passage Way. | | | Below: - The Space - what may have been a temporary flue at some more recent time, left between the new section of JHT wall and the lower level and older openings into the Northeast Tower. |
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http://www.jerseyheritage.com/captions/netower.htm
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| | Northeast Passage |
| | Many participants have never been on a bike or have never found one that works for them. | | | Each year Northeast Passage runs more than 15 events to introduce people with disabilities to the options they have for cycling. | | | For more information on sponsorships, contact the NEP Office or check out Support NEP |
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| | Dover Community News Sports: Northeast Passage plans 'Trilogy of Challenge' athletic events for 2005 |
| | For information, call Northeast Passage at 862-0070 or (800) 735-2964 (TTY: NH RELAY), e-mail northeast.passage@unh.edu, or visit the organization's Web site at www.nepassage.org. | | | Northeast Passage (NEP), a self-funded program of the University of New Hampshire that provides recreational opportunities for people with disabilities, is launching an innovative three-season, three-sport athletic event for people with and without disabilities, called "Mountains to Marshes: A Trilogy of Challenge." | | | Northeast Passage plans 'Trilogy of Challenge' athletic events for 2005 |
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http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/dover/01072005/sports/57658.htm
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| | Explorer Books recent additions to stock catalogue |
| | Gurney Gresswell, of the Voyage of H.M.S.Investigator (Captain M’Clure), during the Discovery of the North-West Passage. | | | A Chronological History of Voyages into the Arctic Regions; undertaken Chiefly for the Purpose of Discovering a North-East, North-West or Polar Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific: from the earliest periods of Scandinavian navigation, to the departure of the recent Expeditions under the orders of Captain’s Ross and Buchan. | | | Long since out of print, comprising a detailed bibliography of 1013 books, pamphlets and reports on whales, whaling and voyages, with much of interest related to the polar regions. |
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http://explbooks.co.uk/newitems.htm
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| | Northeast Passage (C. Miller and J. Hoffman) cho: Ah, for just one time I would take a northeast passage To find a Jewish princess reaching for my wallet thin, With her well-coiffed hair and her extra-long eyelashes And a Mother, waiting, eager to move in. | | | Like them I left a single life and threw it all away To seek a northeast passage I'll never try again I might date shiksas, or maybe switch to men final chorus: Ah, for one last time did I take etc. see also Northwest Passage, For Just One Dime RG | | | Westward from New Jersey, 'twas there I often hied The she-route to stark poverty, o'er which so many cried. |
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http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiNEPASS.html
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| | The mission of Northeast Passage is to create an environment where individuals with disabilities can recreate with the same freedom of choice, quality of life and independence as their non-disabled peers. | | | The inclusion of any organization or person in this database does not constitute a representation, warranty, or endorsement with respect to the competence, suitability, or reliability of such organization or person by United Way of the Greater Seacoast; nor does United Way of the Greater Seacoast sponsor or endorse any third-party web site (legal notices). | | | Northeast Passage was founded in 1990 as a Chapter of Disabled Sports USA. |
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http://www.volunteersolutions.org/uwgs/org/223177.html
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| | Northeast Passage |
| | Barents, a Dutch explorer, was seeking the Northeast Passage, having already made two other such voyages. | | | Sea route from the North Atlantic, around Asia, to the North Pacific, pioneered by the Swedish explorer Nils Nordenskjöld 1878–79 and developed by the USSR in settling Northern Siberia from 1935. | | | The ship is caught in the Arctic ice, and is being piloted by a tender. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005035.html
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| | KATV Channel 7 - Search Results |
| | The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) is the largest nonprofit, | | | Fisheries Research Lab for NOAA Fisheries Service in the USA - Northeast Region. | | | The Northeast Intelligence Network website brings you up to date, cutting edge |
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http://www.katv.com/internetsearch.hrb?k=northeast
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| | Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold |
| | The Swedish explorer Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold (1832-1901) was the first to complete a voyage through the Northeast Passage along the northern coast of Europe and Asia. | | | He almost made it through the entire passage, but just short of the Bering Strait and the ice-free water of the Pacific Ocean, the ship became ice-bound for the winter. | | | It wasn't until 1915 that the first trip was made through the passage from east to west. |
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http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-nordenskjold.htm
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| | Ecology of Tundra Birds: Patterns of Distribution, Breeding and Migration along the Northeast Passage |
| | Several different aspects of the geographical ecology of tundra birds were investigated during the Swedish-Russian Tundra Ecology -94 expedition along the Northeast Passage in 1994. | | | Two important aspects of the energetics of arctic birds were investigated during the expedition: the basal metabolic rates of waders when departing on migration, and the fuel loads deposited by the migrating waders. | | | Quantitative censuses of breeding bird communities and populations were made at the temporary field sites, supplemented by surveys from helicopter over wider tundra areas. |
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