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320: 190:, the cables parted and the ship drove ashore. She got afloat again, but her rudder was torn off, and she was making a great deal of water. Gorrell, the mate, was sent on shore to look for a place where she could be beached for repairs; he was unsuccessful, so on the next day, 26 June, Knight went himself with Gorrell and four men. 139:, wife of James I, Cape Sophia after her mother, King Christian's Fjord, and Cunningham Fjord, in latitude 67° 10′. Some small islands off Cape Sophia were named Knight's Islands. This is apparently the extent of their voyage, of which few particulars have been preserved. They returned to Copenhagen in August. 193:
Leaving two men in the boat, Knight and his three companions went inland over a hill and were never seen again. It was concluded that they were killed by local people. The survivors on board repaired the ship as they best could, with some opposition from local people, and so reached
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on 2 May. On 30 May, at latitude 59° 50′, they sighted high land, which they called Cape Christian, but the ice prevented them from reaching it. On 12 June, they sighted high land on the west coast of Greenland, and named Cape Anna after
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The ice was still very troublesome, and after pushing through it for a couple of days the
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In England in the following year he was employed on a joint venture of the
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An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce
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anchored. In a violent gale on 23 and 24 June, probably near
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1585 - disappeared 26 June 1606) was a British explorer of
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In 1605, Knight took part in a Danish expedition to
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Index

Labrador
Greenland
Labrador
Greenland
Labrador
Northwest Passage
Greenland
John Cunningham
James Hall
Copenhagen
Anne of Denmark
Russia
East India
Northwest Passage
Gravesend
Orkney Islands
ice field
Labrador
Nain
Newfoundland
Dartmouth, Devon
List of solved missing person cases
List of unsolved murders


Knight, John



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