biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1584–1622)
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| biography:
| Navigator, probably born in London, UK. From 1612 to 1616 he was pilot on several expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage. The most significant of these were the voyages under the command of Robert Bylot in the Discovery, during which they visited Hudson Strait (1615), and were the first Europeans to find Baffin Bay (1615) and Lancaster, Smith, and Jones Sounds (1616). He was possibly the first person to determine a degree of longitude at sea by lunar observation. Thereafter he carried out extensive surveys of the Red Sea (1616–21), and was killed at the siege of Ormuz. |
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