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the four lakes
Hudson bay
It is an important shipping lane (route).
Large wooden box or shipping container.
Pirates who attacked Spanish shipping in the 1600's.
A transportation corridor in France is a major shipping route for trucks. It also includes the railways and any shipping channels by water.
Misssissippi River
It is important as a shipping route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the north.
North America
The Europeans were looking for a water route to Asia. Shipping technology and ships had improved and the fact that people wanted the goods from Asia. If a shipping route could be found it would have meant big money for the traders, ships, and crowns involved.
It means following a route and checking that everything is as it should be.
Probably the routes from the middle east made by oil tankers.