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Hugh Willoughby ( Risley, Derbyshire ,? 1 — un lugar del mar de Barents, 1554) fue un navegante inglés, uno de los primeros en emprender las rutas del ártico. Biografía. Se sabe muy poco de su vida, que Willoughby había luchado en la batalla de Campo Flodden contra Escocia y que en 1544 el rey Enrique VIII lo había nombrado caballero.
- Siglo XV
- Explorador
- 1554, Varzina (Rusia)
27 de abr. de 2022 · Feature. Meet Hugh Willoughby, the Wealthy Dilettante Turned Aviation Pioneer. In balloons or planes, this New York rich kid, friend to the Wright brothers and later America's oldest pilot, realized the new frontier was in the skies. by David Boehnlein 4/27/2022. Hugh de Laussat Willoughby’s Pelican sits ready for flight in Florida.
- David Boehnlein
English ship commander who was one of the many explorers of the 1500s in search of a water passage from Europe to the lucrative markets of southeast Asia. Sir Hugh Willoughby is perhaps most remembered for his attempt to find a Northeast Passage across the northern reaches of Europe and Asia.
In Arctic: English and Dutch exploration of the Eurasian Arctic. …under the command of Sir Hugh Willoughby, with Richard Chancellor as chief pilot. Willoughby, with two ships, wintered in a harbour on the Kola Peninsula, where he and all his men perished.
Willoughby in a posthumous portrait. Sir Hugh Willoughby (fl. 1544; died 1554) was an English soldier and an early Arctic voyager. He served in the court of Henry VIII and fought in the Scottish campaign where he was knighted for his valour.
20 de feb. de 2021 · I n 1553 English explorer Hugh Willoughby attempted to live through an Arctic winter. He and his crew of 62 were the first non-native humans to try. It was not out of choice.
In 1897, Hugh De Laussat Willoughby and Ed Brewer became the first two Caucasians to cross the Everglades from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic coast. Willoughby closely mapped, charted, and described what they encountered, information that would aid the Naval War College in creating accurate maps of the Everglades and Upper Florida Keys region.
