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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 Northwest 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 short tons (180 t) of it home on three ships, where initial assaying determined it to be worth a profit of £5.20 per ton (equivalent to £1,900 per ton in 2023). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Frobisher has received more than 640,696 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Martin Frobisher is the 149th most popular explorer (down from 139th in 2019), the 1,287th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,238th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 40

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  • 4.15

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  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Martin Frobisher ranks 149 out of 498. Before him are Sebastián de Belalcázar, Scylax of Caryanda, Cornelis de Houtman, Emin Pasha, Mark Sykes, and Don Walsh. After him are Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg, Pêro da Covilhã, Pedro Mascarenhas, Rodrigo de Triana, Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, and Gan Ying.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1535, Martin Frobisher ranks 12. Before him are Alessandro Allori, Giambattista della Porta, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Catherine Stenbock, Titu Cusi, and Luis de Molina. After him are Frans Hogenberg, Sayri Túpac, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Marcantonio Colonna, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Marc'Antonio Ingegneri. Among people deceased in 1594, Martin Frobisher ranks 7. Before him are Gerardus Mercator, Tintoretto, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Orlande de Lassus, Ishikawa Goemon, and Archduchess Eleanor of Austria. After him are Bálint Balassi, Alonso de Ercilla, Thomas Kyd, Girolamo Mei, and William Allen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Martin Frobisher ranks 1,287 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Lear (1812), Mary Leakey (1913), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Barbara Cartland (1901), John Horton Conway (1937), and Clive Owen (1964). After him are Julian Glover (1935), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Albert Hammond (1944), Branwell Brontë (1817), David Prowse (1935), and Kate Beckinsale (1973).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Martin Frobisher ranks 20. Before him are Robert FitzRoy (1805), Mary Kingsley (1862), Thomas Cavendish (1560), George Vancouver (1757), Isabella Bird (1831), and Mark Sykes (1879). After him are James Bruce (1730), John Rolfe (1585), William Parry (1790), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), Matthew Flinders (1774), and Samuel Wallis (1728).

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