Foxe Luke (1586-1635).

An English explorer, born in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, who searched for the Northwest Passage across North America. In 1631, he sailed much of the western Hudson Bay before concluding no such passage was possible. Foxe Basin, Foxe Channel and Foxe Peninsula were named after him.

North-vvest fox, or, Fox from the North-west passage. : Beginning with King Arthur, Malga, Octhur, the two Zenis of Iseland, Estotiland, and Dorgia; following with briefe abstracts of the voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge: together with the courses, distance, latitudes, longitudes, variations, depths of seas, sets of tydes, currents, races, and over-falls; with other observations, accidents and remarkable things, as our miseries and sufferings. Mr. Iames Hall's three voyages to Groynland, with a topographical description of the countries, the salvages [sic] lives and treacheries, how our men have beene slayne by them there, with the commodities of all those parts; whereby the marchant may have trade, and the mariner imployment. Demonstrated in a polar card, wherein are all the maines, seas, and ilands, herein mentioned. With the author his owne voyage, being the XVIth. With the opinions and collections of the most famous mathematicians, and cosmographers; with a probabilitie to prove the same by marine remonstrations, compared by the ebbing and flowing of the sea, experimented with places of our owne coast by Foxe Luke, 1586-1635 (1635)

The voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in search of a northwest passage, in 1631-32; with narratives of the earlier northwest voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baflin, Hawkridge, ad others (1894)