The north west passage was supposedly a water route that goes through the current day United States all the way to Asia. that was the principal goal of Lewis and Clark's expedition. although they never found it they had been the first people to travel all the way west into current day California. To summarise, the north west passage was made up and doesn't exist.
No. James Cook was unsuccessful in finding a northwest passage.
My biggest obstacle that he faced was not finding the northwest passage
No. It doesn't exist.
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He was famous for finding the northwest passage and for navigation.
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to double the chances of either one of them finding the northwest passage way
The root words for Northwest Passage are "northwest" and "passage". "Northwest" refers to the direction in the compass, while "passage" generally means a route or way through something.
The Europeans switched from finding a shorter passage to Asia, to exploitation/settlement of the Americas. (The exception to this was the search for a Northwest Passage, or short route to Asia thru the Arctic, by explorers such as Franklin.)
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A Northwest Passage to Asia
He did not intend to find the baffin bay but instead the nortwest passage. When he failed on finding the northwest passage he found the baffin bay.