The ballad of Dixon Entrance Somewhere between the Haida Gwaii archipelago, on the north coast of British Columbia, and the southern tip of Alaska's panhandle, Canadian waters turn into American ones.

In a fierce battle for 6 th-place fewer than 20 laps into Sunday’s 85-lap contest, Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward took a chance and dove inside Scott Dixon on the entrance to Turn 8.

“An estimated 100,000 prospectors migrated to the area, and it turned out that one of the easiest ways to reach the gold fields was to travel by sea through Dixon Entrance, into the fjords and ...