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Who completed the first single-season transit of the Northwest Passage in 1944?

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Map of the Arctic region highlighting the Northwest Passage, a maritime route shown with a red line connecting the Atlantic Ocean near Greenland to the Pacific Ocean via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, passing north of Canada and Alaska through the Bering Sea. Major islands and surrounding countries such as Russia, Norway, Denmark (Greenland), the United States (Alaska), and Canada are labeled.
Northwest Passage

The first single-season transit of the Northwest Passage was completed in 1944 by Sgt. Henry A. Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Larsen achieved this feat while navigating the St. Roch, a schooner, traveling from east to west through the Prince of Wales Strait.12