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Windward Passage   /wˈɪndwərd pˈæsədʒ/   Listen
Windward Passage

noun
1.
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



... cargo, and smuggling on board a quantity of doubloons—four hundred and eighty, it was said—we got under way for the island of Cuba. We intended to go into Matanzas, and kept along the coast. After crossing the Windward Passage, we reached Cuba; and were standing on, with a light wind, under our square-sail, the morning of the third day out, when we saw a large boat, carrying two sails, standing out from the shore, evidently in chase of the schooner. We had on board eight souls, viz. the owner, a Frenchman, ...
— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper


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


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