Martin Frobisher
English seaman and privateer (1535-1594) · United Kingdom · Historical Figures · Died at 59
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Something wrong?Sir Martin Frobisher was an English sea captain and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage. He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in eastern Canada, before entering Frobisher Bay and landing on present-day Baffin Island.
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Greenwich Palace on the south bank of the River Thames, from a window of which Queen Elizabeth waved to the departing ships (by an unknown artist)
Skirmish between Martin Frobisher's men and Inuit, c. 1577-78.
The Inuk 'Calichough' or 'Kalicho'. Watercolour by John White
Printed text in German telling of Martin Frobisher's third voyage. Illustrated are the three Inuit, Kalicho; Arnaq, and her child Nuttaaq, forcibly brought back to Bristol by Frobisher from his second expedition to Baffin Island in late 1577.
The man on this portrait has traditionally been identified as Frobisher, but there is some disagreement. (British School, Dulwich Picture Gallery)
Two decades after his death, this portrait of Frobisher was created for the Heroologia Anglica, a collection of engraved portraits of illustrious English people (1620).
Plaque in St Giles-without-Cripplegate, LondonAwards
About this person
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Historical Figures
Type
Historical Figure
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1535 to 1594 · aged 59
Historical Figures from the United Kingdom 6
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