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  2. Willem Barentsz - Wikipedia

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    Willem Barentsz (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm ˈbaːrənts]; c. 1550 – 20 June 1597), anglicized as William Barents or Barentz, was a Dutch navigator, cartographer, and Arctic explorer. Barentsz went on three expeditions to the far north in search for a Northeast passage .

  3. List of sea captains - Wikipedia

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    Le Lacheur, William. Sea captain from Guernsey widely credited as having transformed the economy of Costa Rica by establishing the Costa Rican coffee trade. United Kingdom: Yes 1802 1863 Ladd, William. American anti-war activist and New England sea captain who devoted his pen to preaching non-resistance during the War of 1812. United States ...

  4. List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea - Wikipedia

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    William Palfrey was an American Patriot born in 1741. He went missing after getting lost at sea in December 1780 following a business trip to France. [35] c. December 1781 Charles Carpenter: Unknown Location unknown Carpenter disappeared with the rest of the crew of HMS Necker, presumed foundered while sailing from Saint Helena to the East ...

  5. William Adams (samurai) - Wikipedia

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    William Adams (Japanese: ウィリアム・アダムス, Hepburn: Wiriamu Adamusu, 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620), better known in Japan as Miura Anjin (三浦按針, 'the pilot of Miura'), was an English navigator who, in 1600, became the first Englishman to reach Japan.

  6. William Sea - Wikipedia

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    William Sea (born 3 March 1992) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for US Granville. He is the half-brother of former professional footballers Cyril Yapi and Romaric Yapi . [ 1 ]

  7. William Baffin - Wikipedia

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    William Baffin (c. 1584 – 23 January 1622) was an English navigator, explorer and cartographer. He is best known for his attempt to find the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans , during which Baffin became the first European to discover a bay which was subsequently named in his honour.

  8. William Scoresby (1760–1829) - Wikipedia

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    Scoresby was the son of a small farmer at Cropton, twenty miles from Whitby. He was born on 3 May 1760. After attending the village school he was employed about the farm from the age of nine, and occasionally worked for neighbouring farmers.

  9. Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) - Wikipedia

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    After the (British) Imperial annulment of the 1883 annexation by the Queensland colonial government of New Guinea east of the Dutch boundary at 141 E, in 1884 Germany "annexed the northern shore of New Guinea from the Dutch boundary east-ward to Dampier Strait and the territory back of it theoretically to the crest of the central range of mountains."

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