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John Davis (English explorer)

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John Davis or Davys (c. 155029 December 1605) (b. 1543?) was one of the chief English navigators of Elizabeth I. He led several voyages to discover the Northwest Passage and served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies. [1]

89 relations: Aceh Sultanate, Arctic exploration, Arctic policy of Canada, August 14, August 8, Azores Voyage of 1589, Backstaff, Baffin Bay, Canadian silver dollar, Cartographic expeditions to Greenland, Coat of arms of the Falkland Islands, Cumberland Sound, David Middleton (mariner), Davis Inlet, Davis Strait, Deseado River, Desire (ship), Desire Petroleum, Desire the Right, Disko Bay, Early history of American football, Edward Michelborne, Emery Molyneux, Falklands Day, Flag of the Falkland Islands, Football, Francis Walsingham, Franklin's lost expedition, George Barne III, Hamilton Inlet, History of Greenland, History of navigation, History of Saint Helena, History of the Falkland Islands, History of the Northwest Territories, Hudson Strait, Humphrey Gilbert, Ilhabela, Japan–Thailand relations, Japan–United Kingdom relations, John Davis, John Davys, List of Arctic expeditions, List of English people, List of English writers (D-J), List of eponyms (A–K), List of explorers, List of languages by first written accounts, List of maritime explorers, List of people on the postage stamps of the Falkland Islands, ..., List of rose cultivars named after people, Major explorations after the Age of Discovery, Malvinas Day, Medieval football, Natural scientific research in Canada, Northwest Passage, Patagonia, Persons of National Historic Significance, Public holidays in the Falkland Islands, Puerto Deseado, Red seal ships, Robert Beale (diplomat), Robert Hues, Royal Canadian Mint numismatic coins (20th century), Run (island), Sandersons Hope, Sandridge Park, Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel, South Atlantic Medal, St. Elmo's fire, Thomas Aufield, Thomas Cavendish, Timeline of European exploration, Timeline of historic inventions, Timeline of the history of the Falkland Islands, Torquay Boys' Grammar School, William Baffin, 1580s in England, 1585, 1585 in science, 1592, 1592 in science, 1593 in Ireland, 1594 in literature, 1594 in science, 1600s in England, 1605, 1605 in science, 16th century in literature. Expand index (39 more) »

Aceh Sultanate

The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam (Keurajeuën Acèh Darussalam; Jawoë: كاورجاون اچيه دارالسلام), was a Sultanate centered in the modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh.

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Arctic exploration

Arctic exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic region of the Earth.

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Arctic policy of Canada

The Arctic policy of Canada includes both the foreign policy of Canada in regard to the Arctic region and Canada's domestic policy towards its Arctic territories.

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August 14

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August 8

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Azores Voyage of 1589

The Azores Voyage of 1589 also known as Cumberlands Third Voyage was a series of conflicts in the Azores islands between August and September 1589 by an English military joint stock expedition led by George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland during the Anglo–Spanish War.

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Backstaff

The backstaff is a navigational instrument that was used to measure the altitude of a celestial body, in particular the sun or moon.

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Baffin Bay

Baffin Bay (Inuktitut: Saknirutiak Imanga; Avannaata Imaa; Baie de Baffin), located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Canadian silver dollar

The Canadian silver dollar was first issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1935 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. The coin's reverse design was sculpted by Emanuel Hahn and portrays a voyageur and a person of Indigenous descent paddling a birch-bark canoe.

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Cartographic expeditions to Greenland

This is a list of recognised pioneering expeditions to Greenland that contributed to the cartography of the territory.

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Coat of arms of the Falkland Islands

The coat of arms of the Falkland Islands was granted to the Falkland Islands on 29 September 1948.

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Cumberland Sound

Cumberland Sound (Baie Cumberland; Inuit: Kangiqtualuk) (other names: Cumberland Straits; Hogarth Sound; Northumberland Inlet); Old Norse: ᚠᛁᛋᚦᚱᛁ ᚢᛒᚢᚴᚦᛁᛦ, fisþri ubukþiR), is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is a western arm of the Labrador Sea located between Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula. It is approximately long and wide. Small islands litter the stretch of water which was formed from glacial activity and meltwater produced from the receding glacier. The only settlement located on the shore of the sound on the Cumberland Peninsula is Pangnirtung. John Davis, the English explorer, went part way up the sound in 1585.

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David Middleton (mariner)

David Middleton (died 1615) was a merchant and sea-captain in the service of the English East India Company who made several voyages by sea to the Far East.

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Davis Inlet

Davis Inlet was a Naskapi community in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, formerly inhabited by the Mushuau Innu First Nation.

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Davis Strait

Davis Strait (Détroit de Davis) is a northern arm of the Labrador Sea.

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Deseado River

Deseado River is a river in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz.

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Desire (ship)

The Desire was the 120 ton flagship Thomas Cavendish built for his highly successful 1586-1588 circumnavigation of the globe.

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Desire Petroleum

Desire Petroleum plc was an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Malvern, England.

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Desire the Right

Desire the Right is the motto of the Falkland Islands.

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Disko Bay

Disko Bay (Qeqertarsuup tunua; DiskobugtenChristensen, N.O. & al. "". Arctic Circular, Vol. 4 (1951), pp. 83–85. Op. cit. "Northern News". Arctic, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Mar 1952), pp. 58–59.) is a bay on the western coast of Greenland.

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Early history of American football

The early history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football.

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Edward Michelborne

Sir Edward Michelborne (c. 1562 − 1611?), sometimes written Michelbourn, was an English adventurer and explorer.

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Emery Molyneux

Emery Molyneux (died June 1598) was an English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance.

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Falklands Day

Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592, and is celebrated on 14 August.

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Flag of the Falkland Islands

The current flag of the Falkland Islands was adopted on 25 January 1999 and consists of a defaced Blue Ensign, with the Union Flag in the canton and the Falkland Islands coat-of-arms in the fly.

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Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.

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Francis Walsingham

Sir Francis Walsingham (1532 – 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".

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Franklin's lost expedition

Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, and.

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George Barne III

Sir George Barne III (c. 1532–1593) was a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I, and the son of Sir George Barne II, and Alice Brooke.

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Hamilton Inlet

Hamilton Inlet (Inuttitut: Aivitok, historically spelt "Ivucktoke ") is a fjord-like inlet on the Labrador coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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History of Greenland

The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice cap covers about 80 percent of the island, restricting human activity largely to the coasts.

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History of navigation

The history of navigation is the history of seamanship, the art of directing vessels upon the open sea through the establishment of its position and course by means of traditional practice, geometry, astronomy, or special instruments.

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History of Saint Helena

Saint Helena has a known history of over 500 years since its recorded discovery by the Portuguese in 1502.

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History of the Falkland Islands

The history of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century.

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History of the Northwest Territories

The History of the Northwest Territories begins with the population of the region by First Nations peoples, and proceeds through the transformation of it into provinces and territories of the nation of Canada, including the modern administrative unit of the Northwest Territories.

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Hudson Strait

Hudson Strait links the Atlantic Ocean and Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada.

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Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) of Compton in the parish of Marldon and of Greenway in the parish of Churston Ferrers, both in Devon, England, was an adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.

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Ilhabela

Ilhabela (Portuguese for Beautiful Island) is an archipelago and city situated in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil.

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Japan–Thailand relations

Japan–Thailand relations refer to bilateral relations between Japan and Thailand.

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Japan–United Kingdom relations

are the bilateral and diplomatic relations between Japan and the United Kingdom.

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John Davis

John Davis may refer to.

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John Davys

John Davys may refer to.

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List of Arctic expeditions

This list of Arctic expeditions is a timeline of historic expeditions in, and explorers of, the Arctic.

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List of English people

Listed below are English people of note and some notable individuals born in England.

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List of English writers (D-J)

List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages.

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List of eponyms (A–K)

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name.

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List of explorers

The following is a list of explorers.

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List of languages by first written accounts

This is a list of languages arranged by the approximate dates of the oldest existing texts recording a complete sentence in the language.

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List of maritime explorers

This is a list of maritime explorers.

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List of people on the postage stamps of the Falkland Islands

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List of rose cultivars named after people

Among the individuals or fictional characters who have had rose cultivars named after them are the following.

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Major explorations after the Age of Discovery

Major explorations of Earth continued after the Age of Discovery.

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Malvinas Day

Malvinas Day, officially Day of the Veterans and Fallen of the Falklands War (Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de las Malvinas), is a public holiday in Argentina, observed each year on 2 April.

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Medieval football

"Medieval football" is a modern term used for a wide variety of localised football games which were invented and played in Europe during the Middle Ages.

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Natural scientific research in Canada

This article outlines the history of natural scientific research in Canada, including physics, astronomy, space science, geology, oceanography, chemistry, biology, and medical research.

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Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage (abbreviated as NWP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile.

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Persons of National Historic Significance

Persons of National Historic Significance (National Historic Persons) are people designated by the Canadian government as being nationally significant in the history of the country.

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Public holidays in the Falkland Islands

Public holidays in the Falkland Islands are determined by the Executive Council.

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Puerto Deseado

Puerto Deseado, originally called Port Desire, is a city of about 15,000 inhabitants and a fishing port in Patagonia in Santa Cruz Province of Argentina, on the estuary of the Deseado River.

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Red seal ships

were Japanese armed merchant sailing ships bound for Southeast Asian ports with red-sealed letters patent issued by the early Tokugawa shogunate in the first half of the 17th century.

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Robert Beale (diplomat)

Robert Beale (1541 – 25 May 1601) was an English diplomat, administrator, and antiquary in the reign of Elizabeth I. As Clerk of the Privy Council, Beale wrote the official record of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, to which he was an eyewitness.

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Robert Hues

Robert Hues (1553 – 24 May 1632) was an English mathematician and geographer.

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Royal Canadian Mint numismatic coins (20th century)

*Please see Royal Canadian Mint numismatic coins (2000s) for any numismatic coins made during the 2000s.

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Run (island)

Run (also known as Pulau Run, Pulo Run, Puloroon, or Rhun) is one of the smallest islands of the Banda Islands, which are a part of Moluccas, Indonesia.

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Sandersons Hope

Sandersons Hope is a mountain in the Qaasuitsup municipality in northwestern Greenland, located in the western part of Qaarsorsuaq Island in the Upernavik Archipelago.

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Sandridge Park

Sandridge Park, near Stoke Gabriel, Devon, is an English country house in the Italianate style, designed by John Nash around 1805 for the Dowager Lady Ashburton, née Elizabeth Baring, the wife of John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton.

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Sandridge, Stoke Gabriel

Sandridge is an historic estate in the parish of Stoke Gabriel in Devon, situated on high ground at the head of the River Dart estuary.

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South Atlantic Medal

The South Atlantic Medal is a British campaign medal awarded to British military personnel and civilians for service in the Falklands War of 1982 between the United Kingdom and Argentina.

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St. Elmo's fire

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Thomas Aufield

The Blessed Thomas Aufield (1552 – 6 July 1585), also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr.

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Thomas Cavendish

Sir Thomas Cavendish (19 September 1560Judkins, 2003 – May 1592) was an English explorer and a privateer known as "The Navigator" because he was the first who deliberately tried to emulate Sir Francis Drake and raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe.

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Timeline of European exploration

The following timeline covers European exploration from 1418 to 1957.

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Timeline of historic inventions

The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and the people who created the inventions.

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Timeline of the history of the Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) have a complex history stretching over five hundred years.

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Torquay Boys' Grammar School

Torquay Boys' Grammar School is a selective boys grammar school in Torquay, Devon, England.

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William Baffin

William Baffin (– 23 January 1622) was an English navigator and explorer.

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1580s in England

Events from the 1580s in England.

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1585

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1585 in science

The year 1585 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

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1592

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1592 in science

The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1593 in Ireland

Events from the year 1593 in Ireland.

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1594 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1594.

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1594 in science

The year 1594 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1600s in England

Events from the 1600s in England.

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1605

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1605 in science

The year 1605 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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16th century in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.

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