Word: northwind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the U.S. Navy announced that two U.S. icebreakers, the Navy's Burton Island and the Coast Guard's Northwind, had successfully cut their way through McClure on a joint U.S.Canadian expedition. Neither ship made a complete passage from the Arctic to the Atlantic Ocean; the Burton Island sailed through the Prince of Wales Strait from the west and turned around Banks Island to push westward again through McClure Strait (see map); the Northwind pushed eastward from the Arctic Ocean. Both ships used helicopters to scout the best passage through the ice. Unusually heavy melting of barrier...