[DOC] [TLE] Explorers of North America - EnchantedLearning.com [PAR] Amundsen and his small expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, ... 
was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527. 
... He died on San Miguel Island (in the Santa Barbara Channel) after a fight with 
.... was a Portuguese explorer who sailed to Greenland in 1500, and perhaps... [DOC] [TLE] William Baffin - Wikipedia [PAR] William Baffin (c. 1584  23 January 1622) was an English navigator and 
explorer. He is primarily known for his attempt to discover a Northwest Passage 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, during the course of which he discovered Baffin 
Bay in Present-day Canada. ... Icy conditions precluded exploration to the north, 
but Baffin examined a... [DOC] [TLE] Portuguese discoveries - Wikipedia [PAR] Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the 
numerous ... Soon the Atlantic islands of Madeira (1420) and Azores (1427) were 
reached. ... lead role in encouraging Portuguese maritime exploration until his 
death in 1460. ..... The Portuguese empire expanded into the Persian Gulf as 
Portugal... [DOC] [TLE] Conquistador - Wikipedia [PAR] Conquistadors /kkstdrz is a term used to refer to the soldiers and 
explorers of the .... Pedro de Ursa was killed by his subordinate Lope de Aguirre 
who crowned himself .... Prncipe island was settled in 1500 under a similar 
arrangement. .... in a period of almost eighty years of Portuguese rule of the 
Persian Gulf. [DOC] [TLE] Martin Frobisher - Wikipedia [PAR] Sir Martin Frobisher (c. 1535 or 1539  15 November 1594) was an English 
seaman and privateer (licensed pirate) who made three voyages to the New 
World to look for the Northwest Passage. All landed in northeastern Canada, 
around today's Resolution Island and Frobisher Bay. ... On his second voyage, 
Frobisher found what he thought was gold ore and... [DOC] [TLE] Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia [PAR] The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de Mxico) is an ocean basin largely 
surrounded by the .... Bay of Campeche, which is an isthmian embayment 
extending from the ... Western Gulf of Mexico, which is located between Veracruz 
to the south and ... Mexico City, but was shipwrecked en route along the coast of 
Padre Island,... [DOC] [TLE] Explorers and Discoverers: Places to Go, People to See - World ... [PAR] Remarkably adventurous for his time, Pythias reached the island of Thule, which 
... dad, Erik, hadn't died, making Leif head of the family back in Greenland. ... 
Then he led six more expeditions into the Persian Gulf and eventually to East 
Africa. ... and Isabella (see Chapter 19), set him free and gave him another 
expedition. [DOC] [TLE] Sailed down the Red Sea to explore the land of Punt on the first ... [PAR] Nearchus' voyage carried him through the Persian Gulf to the Euphrates ... His 
explorations took him as far north on the west coast of Greenland as the mouth of 
a fjiord. ... Some say Vespucci gave Venezuela ("little Venice") its name after 
seeing the .... Alvarez De Pineda and his men realize that it is not an island, but a 
long... [DOC] [TLE] Biography  BAFFIN, WILLIAM  Volume I (1000-1700)  Dictionary ... [PAR] He also describes the Greenland Eskimos and their country, and tells of Hall's 
tragic end. ... Following his return from the discovery of Baffin Bay, but without 
finding the ... the Persian Gulf area, where Baffin worked steadily, surveying and 
charting. ... Castle into his belly, wherewith he gave three leaps, and died 
immediately. [DOC] [TLE] European exploration | Britannica.com [PAR] Herodotus prefaces his History (written in the 5th century bce) with a ... with the 
Greek city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily, so Pytheas, a Greek explorer of 
Massilia .... and, passing by the Persian Gulf (which was already well known), 
explored the ... but the later ones through the enormous tract of land from the 
south of the... [DOC] [TLE] William Baffin | Open Access articles | Open Access

Question: This explorer gave his name to a bay & an island south of Greenland, but died in the Persian Gulf
Answer: William Baffin