it was changed to the indian name later on but it still sits on frobisher bay. who was frobisher?rtin frobisher, and english sea captain who in the late 1500s, 1576, was exploring for the northwest passage. the 1500 great britain was looking for the northwest passage to try to find a more efficient route to the far east in order to conduct trade. even back then prosperity, economics and coming up with more efficiency root was important. why was it important? and why nearly 200 years later i visited an exhibit in anchorage bracelet, the exhibit is about captain james cook, of course anchorage, it was discovered by coke i can 1778 -- cook. i started looking at the reason he was there was 200 years after frobisher, greg brings out was still giving orders to search for northwest passage except he was looking at it from the other direction. his last crews out to the pacific, his third crews, talking on orders of around the north american continent into the arctic ocean, of course which was stopped by ty stewart he had to turn around and i was unfortunate as to because it did not been s

i started looking on the reason he was there was because 200 years after frobisher, great britain wasstill giving orders to search for a northwest passage except he was looking at it from the other direction. his last cruise out to the pacific, his third cruise took him on orders around the north american continent into the art at goshen, of course was stopped by ice. he had to turn around and that was unfortunate as well because if he had not been stopped and turned around he would have gone back to hawaii where he was unfortunately killed in this first mate had to take the remainder of the cruise and get the ship back to europe. why were they searching for it and why were they so persistent and why are we still talking about coming up with those through today? i did a little studying and i became very interested in maritime sea powers and started working my way back from frobisher and great written in the late 1500s. what i ended up with was studying venice. dennis was the premier maritime power and the known maritime world in the late 1300s into the mid-1500s. they were small. they