Robert Bylot
Robert Bylot was a British explorer. Little about his life of it is known, though the island Bylot, one of the Arctic islands more “dramatic”, was named in its honor. He is regarded as one of most daring first explorers in the Canadian Arctique. Perhaps that an unhappy experiment with the captain Henry Hudson in 1611 condemned it to a relative darkness. Bylot was the companion of Hudson on the Discovery when they sailed the first time in what is now known like the Hudson Bay. During the disagreements which followed, it was stripped of its row, and has thereafter it joined the mutineers who placed Hudson, his son and several sailors with the drift in a launch. Had not been qualifications of Bylot in navigation, it would have probably undergone the same fate as Hudson. It could make sail the boat to turn over to England, and to obtain forgiveness for its actions during the Mutinerie.
In 1612, Bylot returned at Hudson Bay, this time with Thomas Button. They reached the mouth of the Nelson river, where they wintered. In spring 1613 they continued towards north, reaching a latitude of 65° before the return in England.
In 1615 and 1616, Bylot continued the research of the Passage of the North-West as captain of its own boat, the Discovery . The voyage from 1615 showed that the Détroit of Hudson was certainly not the place where to seek a passage towards Asia. The following year, several notable progress was made possible by a combination of the talents of Bylot in navigation through the ices, and the qualifications of navigation and brilliant tracings of its pilot, William Baffin. Robert Bylot and his team-members were the first Europeans to see the straits of Jones, Lancaster and Smith, the important ways of water which were baptized in the name of the silent partners of the voyage: Alderman Jones, to sir James Lancaster and to sir Thomas Smith. They drew in entirety what was called to honor the island with Baffin. And, in a more significant way, they could reach the latitude in the north of 77° 45 ', a record which held during 236 years. Bylot successfully sailed to return to England.
Nothing is known thereafter about its life. William Baffin, moreover, often receives all the credit for successes of the voyage from 1616.
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Biographical dictionary of Canada on line
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