# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:44:49.361Z

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name: "John Davis"
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description: "An Elizabethan navigator who spent his career chasing the Northwest Passage and piloting ships to the East Indies, then stumbled onto the Falklands in 1592—a find that mattered more to later empires than to him."
tagline: "English explorer and navigator (1550–1605)"
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birthDate: "1550"
deathDate: "1605-12-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Davis led multiple expeditions hunting the elusive Northwest Passage, that frozen shortcut through the Arctic that obsessed every navigator with ambition and a backer. When those northern routes refused to yield, he pivoted: piloting for both English and Dutch ventures bound for the East Indies, the era's other high-stakes run. In August 1592, somewhere between planned routes, he came across the Falkland Islands—uninhabited, wind-battered, strategically meaningless at the time. He died in December 1605, likely at sea or shortly after landfall, his logbooks survival enough.