The Dawn of Empire


North-West Passage


A contemporary chart illustrates the discoveries and assumptions made by Frobisher in his attempts to find the North-West Passage to China. But the optimistically named "Frobisshers Streights," far from leading to the Celestial Empire, was in fact a dead-end inlet into Baffin Island.


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