Windward Passage

American  

noun

1. a strait in the West Indies, between Cuba and Haiti. 50 miles (80 km) wide.

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Windward Passage British  

noun

1. a strait in the Caribbean, between E Cuba and NW Haiti. Width: 80 km (50 miles)

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Windward Passage

“And,” she told Truthout, “the Windward Passage and a history the enslaving nations must rewrite.”

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2019

Many hotels are closed, or open only to relief workers, like the Windward Passage Hotel on St. Thomas.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017

For two days they rolled and pitched across the rough stretch of sea between Haiti and Cuba that sailors call the Windward Passage.

From Time Magazine Archive

And U.S. reconnaissance planes, photographing Cuba from the Yucatan Channel to the Windward Passage, could detect no such buildup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is she prepared to acquiesce in any foreign power purchasing from Haiti a naval station on the Windward Passage, through which pass our steamer routes to the Isthmus?

From The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)