English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
John Davis (English explorer)
John Davis
or
Davis
(c. 155029 December 1605) was one of the chief
English
navigators and
Elizabeth I
. He led several voyages to discover the
Northwest Passage
, served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the
East Indies
. He discovered the
Falkland Islands
(today a
British Overseas Territory
) in August 1592.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License