William Baffin voyage. Baffin served as pilot of "Discovery", which left England under Captain Robert Bylot on 15 March. It carefully explored Hudson Strait in search of a Northwest Passage from the North Atlantic to the Far East. The accuracy of Baffin's tidal and astronomical observations on this voyage was confirmed when William Edward Parry passed over the same ground in 1821. Baffin again sailed as pilot of "Discovery" the next year. Leaving Gravesend on 26 March, he passed west of Greenland up the Davis Strait, discovering the large bay to its north which now bears his name, together with a series
Seal Island (Investigator Strait) Seal Island (Investigator Strait) Seal Island is an island located in Investigator Strait off the south coast of Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia about south south-west of Stenhouse Bay. Since 1972, it has been part of the Althorpe Islands Conservation Park. Seal Island is about south south-west of Stenhouse Bay. It is described as an ‘elevated hump’ rising to a height of with a series of ‘segmented islets’ at its west side. Seal Island is reported as being best accessed via its north coast and during the ‘calmest weather’. A number of sources consider Seal Island