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Interest kindled in 1564 after Jacques Cartier's discovery of the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, Martin Frobisher had formed a resolution to undertake the challenge of forging a trade route from England westward to India. In 1576 - 1578, he took three trips to what is now the Canadian Arctic in order to find the passage.
Sir Martin Frobisher (/ ˈ f r oʊ b ɪ ʃ ər /; c. 1535/1539 – 22 November 1594 [1]) was an English sailor and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage.
1576 – Martin Frobisher discovers "Meta Incognita" ("the unknown bourne"; Baffin Island) and what he believes to be a passage to Cathay: "Frobishers Streytes" (Frobisher Bay). [7] 1577–80 – Sir Francis Drake completes the second circumnavigation of the globe. [44] 1578 – Frobisher sails part way up the "Mistaken Straites" (Hudson Strait ...
Skirmish between Martin Frobisher's men and Inuit, c. 1577–78. The first recorded attempt to discover the Northwest Passage was the east–west voyage of John Cabot in 1497, sent by Henry VII in search of a direct route to the Orient. [17] In 1524, Charles V sent Estêvão Gomes to find a northern Atlantic passage to the Spice Islands.
Based on interviews with Inuit Elders, for which he devised a comprehensive questionnaire, [5]: 31–2 and artifacts and structures discovered on the island, Hall concluded that Kodlunarn had been one of the sites of Frobisher's mining voyages. [5]: 16–8 Hall sent some artifacts of the Frobisher voyages to museums, but few survive today.
Martin Frobisher's expeditions in the 1570s were the first recorded visits to the Northwest Territories by a European. In 1610, Henry Hudson, while looking for the Northwest Passage, landed briefly on the western shore of the bay that bears his name. His discovery opened the interior of the continent to further exploration. [2]
2017: Polar Row, led by Fiann Paul, is the world's most record-breaking expedition (14 Guinness World Records). The team covered 1440 miles measured in a straight line in the Arctic Ocean open waters in a row boat and pioneered ocean rowing routes from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, from Longyearbyen to Arctic Ice Pack (79º55'500 N) and from the ...
Kalicho was the name assigned to an Inuk man from the Frobisher Bay area of Baffin Island (now in Nunavut Canada). He was brought back to England as a captive by Sir Martin Frobisher in 1577. He was taken along with an unrelated Inuk woman and her infant, who were named by the English as Arnaq and Nutaaq.