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English: Fold-out engraved map from Luke Foxe's voyage account book, showing the route of his 1631 sea expedition from England (top right) in search of a Northwest passage towards Asia (top left) through Hudson Strait, exploring Hudson Bay and Foxe Basin (detail). The map uses the azimuthal equidistant projection, with the North Pole as its center point. At bottom left, near the Island of California, the map is decorated with a fox, the author's emblem.

I have also placed a Polar Map or Card, that this Discoverie may be the better understood, and for that I did desire to give satisfaction by Demonstration of all treated of in the Booke, for otherwise, another projection could not have contained it but at unreasonable diversity; and because I cannont describe all the Names in Fretum Hudson, of Capes, Ilands, and Bayes at length in Letters, in respect of the smalnesse of the Degrees of Longitude, I have inserted them in a table by the letters of the Alphabet, as thou shalt find, beginning with A, b, c, d, and tracted my owne way and discovery foorth and home, in small prickles.

— Luke Foxe, in: (1635) North-West Fox, or Fox from the North-west passage, London, unnumbered page facing p. 1
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Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University

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Creator
Luke Foxe  (1586–1635) wikidata:Q704285
 
Luke Foxe
Alternative names
Luke Fox
Description British explorer
Date of birth/death 20 October 1586 Edit this at Wikidata 15 July 1635 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kingston upon Hull Whitby
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creator QS:P170,Q704285
Permission
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The author died in 1635, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

 Geotemporal data
Date depicted
Map location Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Baffin Bay, Arctic Canada, Greenland
Map type nautical chart
Spatial reference system azimuthal equidistant centered on North Pole
Bounding box
N: 90°N
W: 144°E E: 1.5°E
S: 40°N
 Bibliographic data
Publication
Page(s) fold-out map following p. 172
Language English
Place of publication London
Printed by
B. Alsop,
Thomas Fawcett  (fl. 1621) wikidata:Q51585460
 
Description printer
Work period 1621 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q51585460
 Archival data
institution QS:P195,Q6225372
Accession number
29912
Dimensions height: 31.7 cm (12.4 in); width: 44 cm (17.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,31.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,44U174728
Medium engraving
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Scan resolution 96 dpi
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Luke Foxe's map of his 1631 exploration of Hudson Bay

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