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
Stokes Bay (South Australia) a sealer who lived on Kangaroo Island prior to 1836 or a John Stokes who arrived on the island in 1817 and who is reported as residing at Stokes Bay. Stokes Bay (South Australia) Stokes Bay is a bay in South Australia on the northern coast of Kangaroo Island located about west of the town of Kingscote. It is described as being the largest of a number of coves located along the coast between Cape Dutton about to the west and Cape Cassini about to the east. The source of the bay's name is reported as taking its names from