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Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island.
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Philip Amadas
16/17th-century English captain and explorer of North America
Philip Amadas (1550–1618) was a naval commander and explorer in Elizabethan England. Little is known from his early life, but he grew up within a wealthy merchant family in southwestern England. Amadas was instrumental in the early years of the English colonisation of North…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Arthur Barlowe
16/17th-century English captain and explorer of North America
Arthur Barlowe (1550–1620) was one of two English captains who, under the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh, left England in 1584 to find land in North America to claim for Queen Elizabeth I of England. His account survives in a letter written to Raleigh as a report on their…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Roanoke Island
Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States
Roanoke Island is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke, a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English colonization.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)