James Lancaster
James Lancaster (to sir) is an English navigator born towards 1554. He works on behalf of the Compagnie of the Eastern Indies and directs several forwardings in the Indian Ocean and the islands of the Probe.
In 1591, he is the first English to reach the India by the Cape of Good Hope.
It explores then more septentrional water with the research of the Passage of the North-West and its name is given to the strait which separates the Baffin Island of the island Devon. He dies in London the January 6th 1618.
sources
- Michel Mourre, encyclopedic Dictionary of History , p. 3184.
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