Privateer, pirate, and explorer, Martin Frobisher was one of the many English mariner-adventurers to search for the fabled Northwest Passage. He led three expeditions between 1576 and 1578 which, while they failed to reveal the passage, did result in the first charting of the eastern Canadian Arctic, including Frobisher Bay and the entrance to Hudson Strait. Renowned among his contemporaries for his “great spirit, and bould courage and naturall hardness of body", Frobisher held an important command against the Armada in 1588. He was mortally wounded fighting the Spaniards again in 1594. *Note: This designation has been identified for review. A review can be triggered for one of the following reasons - outdated language or terminology, absence of a significant layer of history, factual errors, controversial beliefs and behaviour, or significant new knowledge.