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" You probably missed it, but, mirabile dictu, 500 years too late, but thanks to climate change, there actually is a Northwest Passage now. Long eyed as a commercial route, the Northwest Passage is a channel of waterways through the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of North America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - a shortcut from Europe to Asia through the Canadian Arctic. The Nordic Orion doesn&amp;#039;t didn&amp;#039;t exactly blaze the trail itself. Smaller vessels have been navigating the channel for about a hundred years, but climate change - which has reduced Arctic pack ice that prevented regular marine shipping for most of the year and made waterways hard to navigate.  And, because if we don&amp;#039;t laugh, we will cry, there is a punchline here. This journey was completed by the Nordic Orion, a 225-meter, ice-strengthened vessel loaded with coal in Vancouver, British Columbia and headed for Finland. Maybe if the planet gets just a little hotter, the Midwest will melt and we&amp;#039;ll all find El Dorado. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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