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Jonas Poole
English sailor · United Kingdom · On the map · Historical Figures · Lived 1566 to 1612 · aged 46
Jonas Poole was an early 17th-century English explorer and sealer, and was significant in the history of whaling. He served aboard vessels sent by the Muscovy Company on sealing voyages to Bear Island in the Svalbard archipelago, now owned by Norway, in 1604, 1605, 1606, 1608, and 1609.
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In 1607 he was among the sailors sent to the New World to establish Jamestown. He returned from his final voyage in 1612. Shortly later, he was murdered in a location between Ratcliff in Tower Hamlets and London.
