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/wˈɪndwərd pˈæsədʒ/ Listen

Windward Passage

noun

A channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea.

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"Windward Passage" Quotes from Famous Books

... our Western Indians. When the English lashed the mutineers of Delhi and Cawnpore to the muzzles of their cannon and blew them to pieces, they were enacting no new tragedy; legend and history tell us that Black Beard, the pirate of the Windward Passage, set them that example many years before. His rule was to murder all prisoners who would not join his ship, and those whom he took fighting, that is, with arms in their hands, were subjected to torture, one form ...

— Due South or Cuba Past and Present • Maturin M. Ballou

... passengers, two for locals, and two for freight. There they took a "water-spider," six hundred feet long by three hundred in width, the deck of which was one hundred feet above the surface, which carried them over the water at the rate of a mile a minute, around the eastern end of Cuba, through Windward Passage, and so to the South American mainland, where they continued their journey ...

— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor

Words linked to "Windward Passage" : Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, channel