Inside Passage

1. a natural sheltered waterway used as a sea route along the U.S.-Canadian coast, extending from Seattle, Washington, to Skagway, Alaska. 950 miles (1,529 km) long.

Example Sentences

We took the inside passage between the shore and Race Rocks, a long range of islets on which many a good ship has been wrecked.

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To partially realize its glories take the inside passage trip from Seattle—a thousand miles of calm sea.

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The New York-Boston steamers would keep to the inside passage in this gale.

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If I were surer of your—old engines, I'd try the inside passage, though the tides run strong.

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The skipper, who was a genuine son of the "Land o' Cakes," concluded to take the inside passage, and run through the gulf.

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