William Baffin

Hendrick van der Borcht, Navigator with Globe and Dividers. 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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The voyages of William Baffin : 1612-1622 /
Participants: Hakluyt Society. [ ]; ProQuest (Firm) [ ]; Markham, Clements R. [ TeilnehmendeR ]; Baffin, William. [ TeilnehmendeR ]; Hakluyt Society. [ TeilnehmendeR ]; ...
Published: 2010.
Superior document: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 63
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