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William Baffin

1584 - 1622

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The English silk-weaver William Baffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) became a navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is primarily known for his attempt to find a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, during the course of which he was the first European to discover Baffin Bay situated between Canada and Greenland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Baffin has received more than 164,205 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). William Baffin is the 40th most popular explorer (up from 44th in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 409th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Explorer.

William Baffin is most famous for being the first European to see the Baffin Bay, which he named in 1616.

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  • 160k

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  • 67.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, William Baffin ranks 40 out of 498. Before him are Evliya Çelebi, Henry Morton Stanley, Ingólfr Arnarson, Juan Ponce de León, Francisco de Orellana, and Thorfinn Karlsefni. After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Richard E. Byrd, Frederick de Houtman, Sven Hedin, Zhang Qian, and Diego de Almagro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1584, William Baffin ranks 3. Before him are Miyamoto Musashi, and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain. After him are Francisco de Quevedo, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, Yuan Chonghuan, Matthias Gallas, Mehmed III Giray, Cornelis de Vos, Gaspar de Crayer, and Hu Zhengyan. Among people deceased in 1622, William Baffin ranks 3. Before him are Osman II, and Francis de Sales. After him are Hasekura Tsunenaga, Petrus Plancius, Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, Cesare Ripa, Fidelis of Sigmaringen, John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and John Rolfe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Baffin ranks 340 out of 8,785. Before him are William Petty (1623), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), Norman Haworth (1883), Margaret Tudor (1489), Ecgberht, King of Wessex (800), and Ian McShane (1942). After him are Benjamin Britten (1913), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), David Beckham (1975), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Chaim Herzog (1918), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, William Baffin ranks 5. Before him are James Cook (1728), Francis Drake (1540), David Livingstone (1813), and Henry Morton Stanley (1841). After him are Robert Falcon Scott (1868), William Adams (1564), John Smith (1580), Henry Hudson (1570), John Davis (1550), Richard Francis Burton (1821), and William Dampier (1651).

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