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Northwest Passage

sea route north of North America
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Northwest Passage
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Summary

Northwest Passage is a fairway[1]. It draws 9,670 Wikipedia views per month (fairway category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Canada[3]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Arctic Ocean[4]
  • Part of: Northeast and Northwest Passages[5]
  • Commons category: Northwest Passage[6]
  • Terminus: Davis Strait[7], Cape Prince of Wales[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Northwest Passage[9]
  • Described by source: Limits of Oceans and Seas, 3rd edition[10], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[14]

Why It Matters

Northwest Passage has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → northwest-passage
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: northwest-passage, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956018|northwest passage (#289956018)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1izCaR
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Northwest Passage
    Instance of → —
    Svkkl authority id → 0393166-Severozapadni-prujezd
    Terminus → Davis Strait, Cape Prince of Wales
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0393166-Severozapadni-prujezd, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
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