Track of USS Teuthis & Lyre from Amundsen Gulf to Victoria Strait
Track of & from Amundsen Gulf to Victoria StraitCHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER ELEVENCHAPTER ELEVENAmundsen Passage
Amundsen PassageTHE LYRE— DOLPHIN & UNION STRAIT
THE LYRE— DOLPHIN & UNION STRAITLYREIn 1903, Roald Amundsen commenced the first successful northwest passage through the Canadian archipelago in his 45-foot herring-cutter Gjøa. He crossed the Atlantic, up the west coast of Greenland, westward through Parry Channel, south through Peels Sound between Somerset Island to the east and Prince of Wales Island to the west, around the east coast of King William Island, and through Simpson Strait to follow westward our eastward path through the archipelago.
GjaAmundsen took the northern route through Parry Channel and Peel
