| Baffin, William 1584?-1622. English explorer who led several expeditions (1612-1616) in search of the Northwest Passage. |
Baffin, William
navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage and gave his name to Baffin Island, now part of the Northwest Territories, Canada, and to the bay separating it from Greenland. His determination of longitude at sea by observing the occultation of a star by the Moon is said to have been the first of its kind on record
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