Martin Frobisher - 1576, 1577, 1578 Martin Frobisher Accomplishments: on his first voyage in search of the Northwest Passage Frobisher landed near Resolution Island, giving this land the name "Queen Elizabeth's Forelande" he then landed at "North Forelande", the eastern tip of Hall Island, and claimed the land in the name of the Queen from there he set sail along the waterway which he believed was the route to the Orient and to which he gave the name "Frobisher's Streights" ...

No. 932: MARTIN FROBISHER by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 932. Today, we go after gold -- and gain education instead. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. The early exploration of the New World was full of misadventure. Take Frobisher's quest for the Northwest Passage: Martin Frobisher, born in 1535, took up sailing at 19. He beca ...

Who is Martin Frobisher? ENGLISH navigators had been again trying to solve the question which Cabot had failed to do more than half a century before, namely, the existence of a northwest passage to Asia from the British Isles. Among them was Martin Frobisher, a Yorkshireman, whose zeal and patience were remarkable. He spent fifteen years in fruitless endeavors to get up an expedition to accomplish that object, when he was fortunate enough to secure the patronage of Ambrose Dudley, ...