Sentence examples for the passage around from inspiring English sources

At the most perilous leg of the journey, the passage around the northernmost tip of Siberia, the Vilkitsky Strait, ice covered about half the sea.

After his success with the Suez Canal, de Lesseps was attracted to the Isthmus of Panama, where many projects had been suggested for cutting a canal to join the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and thus make unnecessary the passage around South America.

The passage around the star is not a perfect circle and over time our planet's axis of rotation also rocks back and forth.

The rigors of the passage around Cape Horn commonly gave adequate excuse for ships to stop at Valparaiso or Callao for repairs and for replenishment of water and provisions; once in port, it was not difficult to engage in contraband trade without official Spanish notice.

It's the same story in the passages around St Bartholomew's, a flint church that has served worshippers here since the 12th century, when farmers would still herd their livestock to the "smooth field" that became the market.

The rescue effort is particularly challenging because the waters flooded the passages around the miners to a level well above them, and the rescue shaft has to remain air locked from above to avoid exploding the pocket of compressed air upward and injuring the miners after the ceiling is breached.

Polar icebreakers will soon be able to cross directly over the North Pole rather than traversing the Northwest Passage around the coast of Canada and Alaska, or the Northern Sea Route along the coastline of Russia.

Nonetheless, during or shortly after this eastern expansion, attempts were made to utilize the central section of the Northeast Passage around the Taymyr Peninsula as a commercial route.

He is credited with finding the final part of the Northwest Passage, around the top of North America.

The fleet then proceeded to the Island of Mozambique (northeast of Sofala), in order to take on provisions and make the ships ready for the rough passage around the Cape of Good Hope.

Conversely, the ransoms mean higher insurance premiums for the rattled shipping industry, delays for customers as more ships choose the longer passage around the Cape of Good Hope, lower revenues for the Suez Canal, and for the oil markets yet another variable to work into already volatile prices.