While the U. S. largely refuses to sign because it would place the critical northwest passage within Canadian territorial waters rather than international waters.
Canadian explorers have found one of two ships used by the British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin to search for the Northwest Passage 170 years ago.
加拿大探家发现了英国北极探家约翰·富兰克林爵士(Sir John Franklin)170年前探索西北海道使用艘船只之一。
When Hudson returned to Europe, England's King James I made him an offer: Leave the Dutch East India Company and find the Northwest Passage for England.
He understood that his real mission wasn't going to even begin until he got all the way to Alaska and started mapping and trying to find that Northwest Passage over Canada.
French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier, built the Griffon on the Niagara River, in Canada, with the plan to use the ship to explore the Great Lakes and find the Northwest Passage to China.
One comes from a man who has already successfully achieved all four of the major polar goals: the North Pole and the South Pole, and the Northeast and the Northwest Passage.
In 1905, he achieved, in a tiny fishing vessel, what the mighty British Navy had failed to do the previous eight decades: to find and navigate the Northwest Passage above the Canadian mainland.
We think he got about as far as the Canadian border before the weather froze, the fogs closed in, it became clear that the Northwest Passage was a lot further north than people had speculated.
It wasn't a sea Northwest Passage, and it wasn't a land Northwest Passage, and it was at such a high latitude that, you know, it's Canada, so it makes it effectively useless as a commercial artery.
The Americans have never viewed the Northwest passage as Canadian waters, but Mulroney was able to negotiate a courtesy agreement where they would give us an advisory if they were ever going to transit it.
The author of the telegram, Roald Amundsen, was a Norwegian explorer who was famous in his own right for having successfully navigated the Northwest Passage, the bit of the Arctic Circle that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.