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Northeast Passage, water route that extends from Europe's North Sea, along the Arctic coast of Asia, and through the Bering Sea to the Pacific Ocean. The British began the quest for the passage in 1553 with an expedition commanded by the navigator Sir Hugh Willoughby, who sighted Novaya Zemlya and reached Saamiland, where he died. During 1878-79 the Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskjöld became the first to traverse the passage by rounding Cape Chelyuskin and reaching Yokohama, Japan.



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