Northwest Passage: Timeline

1534   Jacques Cartier Jacques Cartier

Jacques Cartier, was a French [i] explorer [i] popularly thought of as one of ... 

 explores Newfoundland Newfoundland

Newfoundland is a large island off the east coast of North America [i], and the most populous part o ... 

 while searching for the Northwest Passage.

1576   English England

England is the largest and most populous constituent country [i] of the United Kingdom [i]. ... 

 navigator Martin Frobisher Martin Frobisher

Sir Martin Frobisher was an English [i] seaman who made three voyages to the New World [i] to lo ... 

, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.

1585   John Davis John Davis (English explorer)

John Davis was one of the chief English [i] navigators and explorers under Elizabeth I [i] ... 

 enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage.

1610   Henry Hudson Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson was an English [i] sea explorer [i] and navigator in the early seventeenth century ... 

 sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest body of water [i]. ... 

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1845   The HMS ''Erebus'' and ''Terror'' with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames River Thames

The Thames is a river [i] flowing through southern England [i], in its lower reaches flowing through London [i] ... 

 beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage.