The English silk-weaver William Baffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) became a navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is primarily known for his attempt to find a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, during the course of which he was the first European to discover Baffin Bay situated between Canada and Greenland. He was also responsible for exceptional surveys of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf on behalf of the East India Company.
The English silk-weaver WilliamBaffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) became a navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is primarily known for his attempt...
Baffin Island (formerly Baffin Land), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada, the second largest island in the Americas...
Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Greenlandic: Avannaata Imaa; French: Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the west coast of Greenland...
the larger Laguna Madre Baffin Island Current, an ocean current running south down the western side of Baffin Bay WilliamBaffin, a 17th-century English...
and the Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada. This strait lies between Baffin Island and Nunavik, with its eastern entrance marked by Cape Chidley in...
interest from scientists. Robert Bylot and WilliamBaffin were the first Europeans to sight Devon Island in 1616. William Edward Parry charted its south coast...
by WilliamBaffin reaches the Foxe Basin in search of the Northwest Passage 1616: English expedition captained by Robert Bylot and piloted by William Baffin...
1999, p. 62. Baffin 1881, The voyages of WilliamBaffin, 1612-1622, p.xxvi e.g. Baffin 1881. WilliamBaffin's expedition is recorded as having Basque crew...
Northwest Passage followed in the 17th century, including Henry Hudson, WilliamBaffin and Robert Bylot. Cornwallis and Ellesmere Islands featured in the history...
sailed between Qeshm Island and China, India, and Africa. Explorer WilliamBaffin was mortally wounded on Qeshm in 1622 during a battle against Portuguese...
Portuguese 15th West African coast George Back English 19th Canada (Arctic) WilliamBaffin English 17th Northwest Passage, Canada (Arctic) Abu Bakr II Mali Empire...
end of Baffin Island in Nunavut Territory, Canada. Eclipse Sound to the southeast and Navy Board Inlet to the southwest separate it from Baffin Island...
East of Baffin Island: Baffin Bay between Greenland and Baffin Island to Lancaster Sound at the north end of Baffin Island, or West of Baffin Island (impractical):...
Markham, Clements (1881). The voyages of WilliamBaffin, 1612–1622. London: Hakluyt Society. WilliamBaffin. Wood, George Arnold (1922). The discovery...
glossopetrae. Robert Bylot and WilliamBaffin, searching for the Northwest Passage, make a detailed exploration of Baffin Bay (March 26–August 30), discover...
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hired Bylot to find the Northwest Passage as captain of Discovery. WilliamBaffin was the pilot. They sailed west from Hudson Strait and were blocked...
to the Northwest Passage, on the north-west side of Baffin Bay (74° N.), was named by WilliamBaffin after Sir James. His will (dated 18 April 1618) established...
1703) undated – Jean Pecquet, French anatomist (died 1674) January 23 – WilliamBaffin, English explorer and navigator (born 1584) February 19 – Sir Henry...
extending from the Labrador Sea in the southeast through Davis Strait, Baffin Bay and the Arctic Archipelago in the northwest. It consists of a series...
: 334 The 1616 expedition of WilliamBaffin were the first Europeans to record sighting the then-unnamed Ellesmere Island (Baffin named Jones and Smith Sounds...
Northwest Passage. In the 1610s, the area was surveyed by British explorers WilliamBaffin and Robert Bylot. They named several features of the area including...
Tewkesbury to the Addled Parliament. He backed the explorations of WilliamBaffin in 1615 and 1616, with several of the same group of "adventurers". In...
voyages for the discovery of the North-West Passage in North America. WilliamBaffin named Smith Sound between Greenland and Ellesmere Island to honour the...
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