Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
In the Middle of an Island # 19 on the UK Single Charts in 1957. In the Middle of an Island "In the Middle of an Island" is a popular song written by Nick Acquaviva and Ted Varnick and published in 1957. The recording by Tony Bennett was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 40965. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on August 12, 1957 and lasted 14 weeks on the chart. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #13; on the Best Seller chart, at #9; on the Top 100, which was an early version of the Hot 100, it reached #9,