Baffin, William (c 1584-1622)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3453. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Navigator, probably born in London, pilot on several expeditions in
search of the Northwest Passage. He seems to have been the first person
to determine a degree of longitude at sea by lunar observation. Baffin
Island is named after him....

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