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Martin Frobisher
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Les voyages dv sievr de Champlain, Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy en la marine, divisez en devx livres, ou, Iovrnal très-fidèle des observations faites, és decouuertures de la Nouuelle France…; Samuel de Champlain. Paris: Chez Iean Berjon…, 1613.
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17th-century ship
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La cosmographie universelle d'André Thévet, cosmographe du roy…; André Thévet. Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudière…, 1575.
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Frobisher discovered the bay now known as Frobisher Bay, off of Baffin Island. Frobisher thought that the bay was a strait between Canada and Asia
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Interpretation of 16th-century Inuk hunting from a kayak
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De Martini Forbisseri Angli navigatione in regionae occidentis et septentionis: narratio historica, ex Gallico sermone; Dionyse Settle. [Noribergae N'urnberg, W. Germany] imprimebatur : in officina Catharinae Gerlachin, & Haredum Johanis Montani, anno 1580.
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On his third voyage, part of Frobisher's fleet mistakenly entered what is now called Hudson Strait before realizing that they had gone the wrong way
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Re-creation of Frobisher's cottage in the Arctic
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Photo AC99-31 (5 of 7)
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Re-creation of Frobisher's cottage in the Arctic
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Photo AC99-31 (6 of 7)
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Title page of Settle's account of Frobisher's discoveries
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De Martini Forbisseri Angli navigatione in regionae occidentis et septentionis: narratio historica, ex Gallico sermone; Dionyse Settle. [Noribergae N'urnberg, W. Germany] imprimebatur : in officina Catharinae Gerlachin, & Haredum Johanis Montani, anno 1580.
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Walter Raleigh
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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca, or, A Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travel…; John Harris. London: Printed for Thomas Bennet…, John Nicholson…, and Daniel Midwinter…, 1705.
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Drawings of Inuit that Ross met
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Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833; Sir John Ross. London: A.W. Webster, 1835.
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