Resolution Island (Nunavut) Resolution Island (Nunavut) Resolution Island is one of the many uninhabited Canadian Arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut. It is a Baffin Island offshore island located in Davis Strait. It has an area of . The Lower Savage Islands lie between Resolution Island and Baffin Island, while Graves Strait separates Resolution Island from the more northern Edgell Island. English explorer Martin Frobisher landed on the island on July 28, 1576, while on a voyage to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. However it appears to have been named Resolution in 1612 by Sir Thomas Button, after his own ship, the "Resolution".
Thomas Beaumont (died 1614) Anno 1622. "And Mary, one of the Daughters of the aforesaid Lady Ashbornham, was likewise buried in this Church, November 25. 1619. "She died a Virgin on Whitsunday, An. Dom. 1622. about 18 years of Age; and having at her Death a Spiritual Combat with Satan about her Salvation, wherein she prevailing most chearfully, departed from Earth to Heaven, to be married to Christ Jesus, the Lord of both." Thomas Beaumont (died 1614) Sir Thomas Beaumont (1576 - 1614) was an English Member of Parliament for Leicester. His father, Nicholas Beaumont of Coleorton was also an MP and his mother,