Inside Passage


  1. a natural sheltered waterway used as a sea route along the U.S.-Canadian coast, extending from Seattle, Washington, to Skagway, Alaska. 950 miles (1,529 km) long.

  • Also called Inland Passage .

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How to use Inside Passage in a sentence

  • We took the Inside Passage between the shore and Race Rocks, a long range of islets on which many a good ship has been wrecked.

    Travels in Alaska | John Muir
  • To partially realize its glories take the Inside Passage trip from Seattle—a thousand miles of calm sea.

  • The New York-Boston steamers would keep to the Inside Passage in this gale.

    Sheila of Big Wreck Cove | James A. Cooper
  • If I were surer of your—old engines, I'd try the Inside Passage, though the tides run strong.

    Thrice Armed | Harold Bindloss
  • The skipper, who was a genuine son of the "Land o' Cakes," concluded to take the Inside Passage, and run through the gulf.

    Manuel Pereira | F. C. Adams