Sir Martin Frobisher (/ˈfroʊbɪʃər/; c. 1535/1539 – 22 November 1594) was an English sailor and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking...
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Frobisher Bay is an inlet of the Davis Strait in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. It is located in the southeastern corner of Baffin Island...
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real and fictional people Frobisher, Saskatchewan Frobisher Bay, a bay in Baffin Island, named after Martin Frobisher Frobisher Bay, the former name of...
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Frobisher Joseph Frobisher (1740–1810), Canadian fur trader and politician, brother of Benjamin and Thomas Frobisher Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 – 1594)...
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Iqaluit (redirect from Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories)
and its only city, and the northernmost city in Canada. It was known as Frobisher Bay from 1942 to 1987, after the large bay on the coast on which the city...
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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...
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of Martin Frobisher's fleet in Newfoundland after an unsuccessful attempt in search of the Northwest Passage. His third voyage, to the Frobisher Bay...
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dysentery after an unsuccessful attempt to take San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sir Martin Frobisher was a seaman and privateer who made three voyages to the New World...
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Ocean. It was recorded as discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the ship Emanuel of Bridgwater...
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church after Crowley Roger Townshend, buried in the church in 1590 Sir Martin Frobisher, captain who fought against the Spanish Armada, buried in the church...
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aboard Howard's flagship Ark, where Howard, Drake, Seymour, Hawkins, Martin Frobisher, and two or three others, decided to launch fire ships. That night...
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entrance to 240 km (150 mi) at Deception Bay. English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher was the first European to report entering the strait, in 1578. He named...
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unknown limits." Frobisher's 1578 voyage was originally planned to establish a settlement here. McDermott, James (2001). Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan privateer...
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Lo Hon-cho Louis-Michel Aury Mansel Alcantra Manuel Ribeiro Pardal Martin Frobisher Mary Lindsey Mary Read Mary Wolverston Michel de Grammont Moses Cohen...
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from what is now Baffin Island, Nunavut, who was taken hostage by Sir Martin Frobisher on his second journey to find the Northwest Passage. She, her infant...
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and was kept ashore until 1595. In 1590 Revenge was commanded by Sir Martin Frobisher in an unsuccessful expedition along the coast of Spain to intercept...
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HMS Frobisher was one of five Hawkins-class heavy cruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. She was not finished during the war and...
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Adventurers became the Muscovy Company. In June 1576, English mariner Martin Frobisher led an expedition consisting of three ships and 35 men to search for...
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launched in 1576 by Martin Frobisher, who took three trips west to what is now the Canadian Arctic in order to find the passage. Frobisher Bay, which he first...
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Hernán Cortés and La Malinche Martín de Porres (1579–1639), Catholic patron saint of people of mixed race Martin Frobisher (c. 1535–1594), English privateer...
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of Thanksgiving in North America occurred during the 1578 voyage of Martin Frobisher from England in search of the Northwest Passage. Other researchers...
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an account by English explorer Martin Frobisher. While leading an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Frobisher thought he had discovered gold ore...
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tusk allegedly valued at £10,000 pounds sterling from the privateer Martin Frobisher; both items were staples in cabinets of curiosities. Considered to...
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Lo Hon-cho Louis-Michel Aury Mansel Alcantra Manuel Ribeiro Pardal Martin Frobisher Mary Lindsey Mary Read Mary Wolverston Michel de Grammont Moses Cohen...
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needs. Martin Frobisher's 1576 search for the Northwest Passage was the first well-documented contact between Europeans and Inuit. Frobisher's expedition...
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Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Frobisher, after the Elizabethan explorer and adventurer Martin Frobisher: HMS Frobisher was renamed HMS Parker (1916) in...
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Evans Sir Ranulph Fiennes Dwayne Fields John Franklin Peter Freuchen Martin Frobisher Vivian Fuchs Tobias Furneaux Yakov Gakkel Matvei Gedenschtrom Adrien...
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Lo Hon-cho Louis-Michel Aury Mansel Alcantra Manuel Ribeiro Pardal Martin Frobisher Mary Lindsey Mary Read Mary Wolverston Michel de Grammont Moses Cohen...
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