{"slug": "northwest-passage", "label": "Northwest Passage", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81136", "qid": "Q81136", "description": "sea route north of North America", "entries": 14, "years": 12, "span": [1534, 1944], "span_label": ["1534 CE", "1944 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 14}], "related": [{"slug": "hudson-bay", "label": "Hudson Bay", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "river-thames", "label": "River Thames", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greenland", "label": "Greenland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "newfoundland-island", "label": "Newfoundland (island)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1534, "year_label": "1534 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – Jacques Cartier explores Newfoundland, while searching for the Northwest Passage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558671#April–June", "title": "1534", "revid": 1369558671, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage through North America, enters the bay now named after him in Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362635528#July–September", "title": "1576", "revid": 1362635528, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – English explorer John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in Baffin Island, in his quest for the Northwest Passage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365931198#July–September", "title": "1585", "revid": 1365931198, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1587, "year_label": "1587 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – John Davis sets out from Dartmouth, Devon, for a third attempt to find the Northwest Passage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478812#April–June", "title": "1587", "revid": 1362478812, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 2", "text": "August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#July–September", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26–August 30 – English explorer William Baffin, as pilot to Robert Bylot on the Discovery, makes a detailed exploration of Baffin Bay, whilst searching for the Northwest Passage. The expedition also discovers Smith Sound, Lancaster Sound and Devon Island, and reaches latitude 77° 45' North, a record which holds for 236 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#March-April", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › March-April"}}, {"year": 1747, "year_label": "1747 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24–October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372981647#April–June", "title": "1747", "revid": 1372981647, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – John Ross sets sail on his ship, the Isabella, in search of the Northwest Passage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373165947#April–June", "title": "1818", "revid": 1373165947, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "A British Arctic expedition under William Parry, comprising HMS Hecla and HMS Griper, reaches longitude 112°51' W in the Northwest Passage, the furthest west which will be attained by any single-season voyage for 150 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355822452#Date_unknown", "title": "1819", "revid": 1355822452, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – Explorer William Parry, sailing in the Arctic in a quest for the Northwest Passage through North America, guides the ships HMS Hecla and HMS Griper through an iceberg-laden passage that will later be named the Parry Channel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355822452#July–September", "title": "1819", "revid": 1355822452, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1845, "year_label": "1845 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 28", "text": "July 28 – HMS Terror and HMS Erebus of the Franklin Expedition go missing in the Davis Strait west of Greenland, while searching for the Northwest Passage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364939346#July–September", "title": "1845", "revid": 1364939346, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1845, "year_label": "1845 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with 134 men, comprising Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage, sail from Greenhithe on the Thames. They will last be seen in the summer, entering Baffin Bay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364939346#April–June", "title": "1845", "revid": 1364939346, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 26", "text": "August 26 – Near Point Barrow, Alaska, the crew of the Norwegian ship Gjoa, led by Roald Amundsen, make the breakthrough of finding the long-sought \"Northwest Passage\" from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373341358#August", "title": "1905", "revid": 1373341358, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Canadian Arctic explorer Henry Larsen returns to Vancouver, becoming the first person successfully to navigate the Northwest Passage in both directions, in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner . His westbound voyage is the first completed in a single season, and the first passage through the Prince of Wales Strait.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#October", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › October"}}]}