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Frobisher Crescent, part of the Barbican Estate in London, is named after Frobisher.
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Iqaluit is located in the Everett Mountains rising from Koojesse ( Kuujussi ) Inlet, an inlet of Frobisher Bay, on the southeast part of Baffin Island.
The family prospered, in part due to fortuitous 16th-and 17th-century marriages into the prominent Todd, Frobisher and Hildyard families in Yorkshire.
When telephone service was introduced in the eastern Northwest Territories ( most of this is now Nunavut Territory created in 1999 ), at Frobisher Bay in 1958, Bell Canada made it nominally part of Area code 418.
Two issues later, in " Kane's Story Part 1 " ( DWM # 104 ), she becomes a regular character in the trip, initially travelling with both the Sixth Doctor and his shape-shifting companion, Frobisher and continuing until the final part of " Up Above the Gods " in DWM # 129.
Frobisher and London
* May 31 – Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London.
Frobisher turned homewards, and reached London on 9 October.
The island was visited by Martin Frobisher and is named for Michael Lok, a London financier who was one of the patrons of Frobisher's Arctic expeditions of the 1570s.
Frobisher and is
Until 1987, it was called Frobisher Bay, a name that is still occasionally used.
Iqaluit is located on the south coast of Baffin Island at the head of Frobisher Bay.
* 1964-First community council formed ; population of Frobisher Bay is 900
* Freddie Frobisher, the flatulent hermit of Lindisfarne, is featured in Blackadder the second, episode Beer.
* March 17 – The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
Until 1987, the town shared the name Frobisher Bay with the bay on which it is located.
Frobisher Bay, in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut, is named after him.
On one side of the coin is the customary portrait of Queen Elizabeth ; on the other, 16th-century British explorer Martin Frobisher and a compass rose from his era, along with images of the ship he sailed in search of the fabled Northwest Passage and an Inuit man paddling his kayak in ice-choked waters.
Frobisher Bay is a relatively large inlet of the Labrador Sea in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada.
Indeed, Frobisher Bay's whole coastline is marked with innumerable narrow inlets into which flow many small streams.
Frobisher Bay is also studded with islands.
Frobisher Bay is named for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it.
Frobisher Bay is a James Gordon song, featured in the TV program Canadian Idol.
In 1809, Henry had written to Askin, " There is only us four old friends ( James McGill, Isaac Todd, Joseph Frobisher, and himself ) alive, all the new North westards are a parcel of boys and upstarts, who were not born in our time, and supposes they know much more of the Indian trade than any before them.
It is believed that Frobisher took Greenland for Frisland and Baffin Island for Greenland and the Emmanuel, returning home, made a mistake in dead reckoning and mistook optical effects near Greenland at around 62 ° N for a new land.
A slightly confusing feature of some of the estates is that streets only have names, not titles-in Birch Hill, Crown Wood, Great Hollands and others there is no ' Road ', ' Avenue ', ' Street ', just ' Frobisher ', ' Jameston ', ' Juniper ', ' Jevington '.
Heading south from the hotel there is Keyes, Hood, Collingwood and Frobisher.
Frobisher is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who in the 1980s.
Frobisher is a Whifferdill, one of a shape-changing extraterrestrial race.
It is not a static form, however, as Frobisher has been seen emulating different types of penguins.
Frobisher and named
Long regarded as a campsite and fishing spot by the Inuit, the place chosen had traditionally been named Iqaluit – " place of many fish " in Inuktitut – but Canadian and American authorities named it Frobisher Bay, after the name of the body of water it abuts.
* August 11 – English navigator Martin Frobisher, on his search for the Northwest Passage, enters the bay now named after him.
The Royal Navy Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher was named after him.
It was recorded as discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the Emmanuel ( a " busse ") and was indicated on maps as existing between Ireland and mythical Frisland at about 57 ° N. The island was then named for the type of vessel that its discoverers used.
On March 2, 1835, according to the St. Francois Xavier Catholic Church marriage records: Guillaume Sayer, son of John Sayer and an Ojibwe woman named Marguerite, married Josèphté Frobisher, age about 28 years according to her baptismal record of the same day, the daughter of Alexander Frobisher and Marguerite, a Cree woman.
* Frobisher Bay, a bay in Baffin Island, named after Martin Frobisher
Frobisher and after
On 1 January 1987, the name of this municipality was officially changed from " Frobisher Bay " to " Iqaluit "-aligning official usage with the name that the Inuit population had always used ( although, many documents still referred to Iqaluit as Frobisher Bay for several years after 1987 ).
Herman Melville wrote a section on the narwhal in Moby Dick, in which he claims a narwhal tusk hung for " a long period " in Windsor Castle after Sir Martin Frobisher had given it to Queen Elizabeth.
After proceeding about sixty miles up this " mistaken strait ," Frobisher with apparent reluctance turned back, and after many buffetings and separations, the fleet at last came to anchor in Frobisher Bay.
He was sent to residential school in Frobisher Bay, now Iqaluit, at 15, returning to Pangnirtung after one year.
The graphic novel The Age of Chaos, written by Colin Baker ( who played the Sixth Doctor ) revealed that Frobisher and the Sixth Doctor visited Peri's descendants several times, so Frobisher must have rejoined the Doctor after Trial in an unseen story.
A month after Hearne finished building, Thomas and Joseph Frobisher arrived on their way to intercept HBC furs at Frog Portage.
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In 1577 Oxford invested £ 25 in the second of Martin Frobisher ’ s expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage.
The population of Frobisher Bay increased rapidly during the construction of the Distant Early Warning Line ( DEW line, a system of radar stations, see North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD )) in the mid-1950s.
After 1959, the Canadian government established permanent services at Frobisher Bay, including full-time doctors, a school and social services.
The American military left Iqaluit in 1963, as intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBM ) diminished the strategic value of the DEW line and Arctic airbases, but Frobisher Bay remained the government's administrative and logistical centre for much of the eastern Arctic.
* 1576-Englishman Martin Frobisher sails into Frobisher Bay believing he has found the route to China.
* 1576 – Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.
In 1577 the Company of Cathay was formed to support Martin Frobisher ’ s hunt for the Northwest Passage, although Frobisher and his investors quickly became distracted by reports of gold at Hall ’ s Island.
Britain and British seafarers – including Sir Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Frobisher and Captain Brown — played a major role in the transatlantic trade in captured Africans between 1530 and 1810.
* January 1 – Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit.
* November 22 – Sir Martin Frobisher, British explorer ( b. 1535 )
* Martin Frobisher holds the first celebration of Thanksgiving by Europeans in North America at Newfoundland by the Frobisher Expedition.
Elizabeth I of England kept a " unicorn horn " in her cabinet of curiosities, brought back by Arctic explorer Martin Frobisher on his return from Labrador in 1577.
Martin Frobisher landed at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in August 1576 ; He returned in 1577, claiming it in Queen Elizabeth's name, and in a third voyage tried but failed to found a settlement in Frobisher Bay.
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