Windward Passage
Americannoun
noun
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“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
The Coast Guard has boosted patrols by one-third, stages surprise harbor blockades and keeps a near continuous surveillance of the Windward Passage, the major shipping route north.
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
It is divided from Cuba by a strait called the Windward Passage.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt
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