Luke Fox
Luke Fox , also Luke Foxe (born October 20, 1586 in Kingston upon Hull , † July 15, 1635 in Whitby ), was an English explorer.
Life
Luke Foxe was the son of the merchant captain Richard Fox. Foxe acquired seafaring knowledge through numerous voyages through the North and Baltic Seas, studying the works of Samuel Purchas , Richard Hakluyt, and others, and speaking with veterans of Arctic voyages. On the recommendation of Henry Briggs , Foxe applied to the British Crown in 1629 for an expedition with the aim of discovering the Northwest Passage in North America , which he suspected to be near the Churchill River . Foxe was made available to Charles for this; the expedition could start in May 1631 and reached Hudson Bay on June 22nd , which he sailed like the Foxe Basin until the end of September. Foxe realized that there was no passage in south Hudson Bay. At the end of October 1631 the expedition reached Great Britain again. The opportunity to start another expedition to search for the Northwest Passage was not given to him. He eventually died in relative poverty.
meaning
The Foxe Peninsula , Foxe Canal and Foxe Basin were named after him. Fox himself gave names to 27 geographical locations on his travels, eight of which still bear this name today. One of them is the Roes Welcome Sound between Southampton Island and mainland Canada, which he named after his friend and sponsor Sir Thomas Roe .
Foxe was the first to circumnavigate Hudson Bay, dispelling the idea of a passage out of the bay to the west. Foxe was criticized in particular for not wintering in the Arctic during his expedition and thus prolonging his search.
Foxe wrote the "perhaps first" story of exploration of the Arctic, which contains the only surviving narrative from Thomas Button's voyages.
Works
- Northwest Fox; or, Fox from the North-West Passage. London, 1635
swell
- Merrill Distad: Foxe, Luke . In: Mark Nuttall (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Arctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2003, ISBN 1-57958-436-5 , pp. 668–669 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Luke Fox . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
- Luke Foxe's expedition, 1631 on the site of the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich
Individual evidence
- ↑ Distad 2005: 669
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fox, Luke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foxe, Luke (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1586 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kingston upon Hull |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1635 |
| Place of death | Whitby |