Talk:Joseph Moxon

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Moxon theorized that the arctic was ice free, and warmed by twenty-four hours of sunlight in the summer. He also speculated that arctic ice was created near land, and that if one sailed far enough northward, one would be free of northern land masses, and subsequently ice. These views led him to believe that the Northwest passage would be found by sailing near the North Pole. These views later influenced Daines Barrington and Samuel Engel, whose refinement of Moxon's Ideas would influence Captain Cook's Third Voyage in search of the Northwest Passage.