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William Baffin

1584 - 1622

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William Baffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) was an English 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 156,521 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). William Baffin is the 44th most popular explorer (up from 56th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 6th 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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  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, William Baffin ranks 44 out of 405. Before him are Martin Behaim, Ernest Shackleton, Hanno the Navigator, Zhang Qian, Ingólfr Arnarson, and Sven Hedin. After him are Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Diego de Almagro, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Jacob Roggeveen, and Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

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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 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, Francisco de Quevedo, Catherine of Sweden, Countess Palatine of Kleeburg, Yuan Chonghuan, Matthias Gallas, Herman Wrangel, Cornelis de Vos, Melchior Grodziecki, and Grégoire de Saint-Vincent. 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, Cesare Ripa, Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Bartolomeo Manfredi, John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Frans Pourbus the Younger, and John Rolfe.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Baffin ranks 409 out of 7,765. Before him are Jim Clark (1936), Millvina Dean (1912), Joseph Lister (1827), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Thomas Carlyle (1795), and Charles Glover Barkla (1877). After him are Richard Wright (1943), Alan Parker (1944), David Lean (1908), James Parkinson (1755), Christopher Wren (1632), and Edgar the Peaceful (943).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, William Baffin ranks 6. Before him are James Cook (1728), Francis Drake (1540), David Livingstone (1813), Henry Morton Stanley (1841), and Robert Falcon Scott (1868). After him are Richard Francis Burton (1821), William Adams (1564), Henry Hudson (1570), John Smith (1580), James Clark Ross (1800), and John Davis (1550).

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