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Martin Frobisher

1535 - 1594

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Sir Martin Frobisher (; c. 1535/1539 – 22 November 1594) was an English sailor and privateer who made three voyages to the New World looking for the North-west Passage. He probably sighted Resolution Island near Labrador in north-eastern Canada, before entering Frobisher Bay and landing on present-day Baffin Island. On his second voyage, Frobisher found what he thought was gold ore and carried 200 tons of it home on three ships, where initial assaying determined it to be worth a profit of £5.20 per ton. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Frobisher has received more than 608,402 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Frobisher is the 140th most popular explorer (down from 130th in 2019), the 1,242nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,126th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Martin Frobisher ranks 140 out of 405Before him are Adam Olearius, Gan Ying, Frederick de Houtman, Francisco Serrão, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, and Mikhail Lazarev. After him are Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, Emin Pasha, Sebastián de Belalcázar, Alexander Mackenzie, Otto Sverdrup, and Scylax of Caryanda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1535, Martin Frobisher ranks 11Before him are Giambattista della Porta, Federico Barocci, Alessandro Allori, Titu Cusi, Shimazu Yoshihiro, and Luis de Molina. After him are Sayri Túpac, Catherine Stenbock, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Marcantonio Colonna, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and Marc'Antonio Ingegneri. Among people deceased in 1594, Martin Frobisher ranks 7Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tintoretto, Gerardus Mercator, Orlande de Lassus, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, and Ishikawa Goemon. After him are Bálint Balassi, Alonso de Ercilla, Thomas Kyd, and Girolamo Mei.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Frobisher ranks 1,242 out of 7,765Before him are Carol Reed (1906), Hugh Griffith (1912), Joan Plowright (1929), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), John Nettles (1943), and Catherine Eddowes (1842). After him are Andy Whitfield (1971), Vera Lynn (1917), Scott Adkins (1976), Leonard Woolley (1880), Prince William, Duke of Cumberland (1721), and Matthew Festing (1949).

Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Martin Frobisher ranks 19Before him are William Dampier (1651), Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), and Isabella Bird (1831). After him are Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Samuel Wallis (1728), Matthew Flinders (1774), James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), and Mark Sykes (1879).