Northeast Passage

American  

noun

1. a ship route along the N coast of Europe and Asia, between the North Sea and the Pacific.

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Northeast Passage British  

noun

1. a shipping route along the Arctic coasts of Europe and Asia, between the Atlantic and Pacific: first navigated by Nordenskjöld (1878–79)

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Example Sentences

Across the Russian Arctic, a consortium of companies supported by the government is midway through a plan to invest 735 billion rubles, or about $10 billion, over five years developing the Northeast Passage, a shipping lane between the Pacific and Atlantic that the Russians call the Northern Sea Route.

From New York Times

In the ultralight, performance trike I had rented from a shop called Northeast Passage in Durham, N.H.,

From New York Times

Fatland opens her book by describing a voyage along the Arctic coast of Russia, the once-ice-bound Northeast Passage now increasingly littered with rusting oil drums and other trash.

From Washington Post

Barents’s expedition was seeking a northeast passage from Europe to Asia, without having to travel around Africa.

From Washington Post

The boat and crew would now thread through the Northeast Passage and aim to meet the men in two and a half months on the far side of the ice cap, in the waters north of the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

From National Geographic