Three Searches for the Northwest Passage

This map shows three routes through the Arctic. The blue line traces the voyage of McClure in 1850-1854; the green line traces the voyage of Amundsen in 1903-1906; the red line traces the voyage of Larsen (on the RCMP vessel the St. Roch) in 1940-1942.

Key to locations on map

#	Land Feature	#	Water Feature
1	Greenland (Kalaalit Nunaat)	19	Davis Strait
2	Baffin Island	20	Baffin Bay
3	Ellesmere Island	21	Lancaster Sound
4	Devon Island	22	Parry Channel
5	Bylot Island	23	Viscount Melville Sound
6	Cornwallis Island	24	McClure Strait
7	Somerset Island	25	Amundsen Gulf
8	Prince of Wales Island	26	Dolphin and Union Strait
9	Boothia Peninsula	27	Coronation Gulf
10	Melville Peninsula	28	Dease Strait
11	Bathurst Island	29	Queen Maud Gulf
12	Melville Island	30	Victoria Strait
13	King William Island (Qikiqtaq)	31	McClintock Channel
14	Prince Patrick Island	32	Franklin Strait
15	Banks Island	33	Peel Sound
16	Victoria Island	34	Prince Regent Inlet
17	Back River	35	Gulf of Boothia
18	Whale Fish Islands (Qeqertarsuaq)	36	Beaufort Sea
		37	James Ross Strait

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