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
Laura Bay, South Australia Laura Bay, South Australia Laura Bay is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula overlooking the Great Australian Bight about north-west of the Adelaide city centre and about south east of the town centre of Ceduna. The boundaries of the locality were created in 1999 for the “long established name.” Laura Bay consists of land associated with a section of coastline that includes, from west to east, part of the east coast of Decres Bay, the promontory known as Cape D’Estrees and part of the north coast of Smoky