hiswholebohemiansoul:So in the Doctor Who comics… the Doctor and Peri travel with Frobisher&h
hiswholebohemiansoul:So in the Doctor Who comics… the Doctor and Peri travel with Frobisher… a shapeshifting penguin.Ok, I couldn’t help but be a complete nerd about this. The penguin’s name is Frobisher. Penguins are from the opposite side of the earth, but I can’t help but think it was named after this guy:Sir Martin Frobisher. He was a 16th century English privateer and explorer and one of the earliest explorers to set out in search of the Northwest passage through northern Canada (as opposed to across the North American continent, which was a thing at the time).He made three trips to northern Canada and had reached as far north as Baffin Island. He tried and failed to establish a settlement in Canada, and his futile search for gold ended in a loss of support from the crown for any further arctic voyages, although with the limited technology of exploration at the time he was never likely to have successfully penetrated much deeper into the passage or much further north. He has a bay named after him on the southern end of Baffin Island, at the ‘entrance’ to the Northwest Passage. And apparently also a a penguin that spits fish in Colin Baker’s lap. Who knew. -- source link
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