Baffin

[ baf-in ]

noun

1. William, 1584?–1622, an English navigator who explored Arctic North America.

Example Sentences

In July, the party was in Baffin's Bay, and here the brigs remained embedded in the ice for twenty-one days.

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That is incontestable, and I notice that Baffin's Sea has a tendency to return to the same state in which it was before 1817.

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It was necessary to ward it off, as they had been compelled to do in Baffin's Bay.

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Baffin did all this with an accuracy which surprised Sir John Ross, who was the next to enter the bay, two centuries later.

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It was in these years of Hudson and Baffin that Napier invented logarithms and simplified the processes of nautical calculations.

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