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

Last week, in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti, the cruise was nearing its end when the real thing did happen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It is also a centre of the West Indian submarine cable systems, being about midway between the Windward Passage and the Trinidad entrance into the Caribbean Sea.'

From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Maurice Francis Egan

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