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

Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were running through the Windward Passage, as it was called by the early navigators, and whence one branch of the Gulf Stream finds its way northward.

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray