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Sir Martin Frobisher



Frobisher, Sir Martin (1539–94), English navigator and explorer. In search of a northwest passage to the Pacific, he led 3 expeditions to northern Canada (1576–78), landing at Labrador and Frobisher Bay and at Greenland, mistaking them for Cathay.



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