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 (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 Bathhurst Island 29 Queen Maude 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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Sunken ship