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William Baffin (d. 1622)
Baffin, William. An English navigator and explorer; born probably in London, 1584; died at the siege of Ormuz, Jan. 23, 1622. In the second of two arctic expeditions, in which he served as pilot, he discovered Baffin’s Bay. Of these voyages he wrote two accounts, in the first giving a new method of computing longitude at sea. These accounts have been edited by Clements R. Markham for the Hakluyt Society, ‘Voyages of William Baffin’ (1881).