William Baffin
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The English silk-weaver
William Baffin ( – 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.
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