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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.
English: A battle between Englishmen and Inuit at Baffin Island, during one of Martin Frobisher's expeditions of the late 1570s. The Englishmen in an open boat steer towards the rocky shore through an icy sea and fire guns ashore at Inuit in parkas who are shooting arrows from the clifftops.
Martin Frobisher, licensed by Elizabeth I and backed by a group of merchant adventurers, sought gold in the New World and a Northwest Passage to the Orient. George Best accompanied Frobisher on all of his three voyages (in 1576, 1577 and 1578) and this work is the first account of them.
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 ...
During the 1570s, explorer Martin Frobisher led expeditions to the island to mine what he believed was gold ore. The ore turned out to be worthless, and the island was ignored by explorers until Charles Francis Hall , inspired by oral history accounts from the Inuit of Frobisher Bay, visited the site in 1861 to investigate the remains of ...
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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.
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