Martin Frobisher Small 236×320 Medium 471×640 Large 754×1024 Download Tiff Original 1768×2400 | (5.0 MB) Description Sir Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 or 1539 – November 22, 1594) was an English seaman (from Wakefield, Yorkshire) who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. Keywords Canada, English seaman, explorer, Northwest Passage, portrait Galleries Famous People: Explorers, Famous People: F, United Kingdom Famous Persons Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 3) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)
