Martin Frobisher was an English seaman (from Wakefield, Yorkshire) who made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. All landed in northeastern Canada, around today's Resolution Island and Frobisher Bay. On his second voyage, Frobisher found what he thought was gold and carried 200 tons of it home on three ships, where initial assaying determined it to be worth a profit of £5 per ton. Wikipedia
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FROBISHER , SIR MARTIN , mariner, privateer, explorer, the first Englishman after the C abots to seek a northwest passage; b. 1539?; d.1594. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34352
In 1576, Frobisher began a series of three trips to what is now Canada, and found some ore that he thought was gold (it was not - it was pyrite, also called Fool's Gold) on Baffin Island (Frobisher claimed Baffin Island for England). He also discovered R www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/f/frobisher.shtml
Frobisher made two voyages to Africa as a youth. At one point he was captured by the Portuguese, and he also spent some years as a pirate. Frobisher returned to England in 1576 with a sample of black rock he claimed to contain gold; later identified as www.allthingsarctic.com/exploration/frobisher.aspx
After 15 years of perseverance, Frobisher found investors to finance his project and attracted support from the Crown. On June 7, 1576, Frobisher left Ratcliff with 35 men on two ships . The Queen saw them off at Greenwich. Going through the Shetland I www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/explorers/h24-1340-e.html
