Legacy
The Royal Navy Hawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Frobisher was named after him.
Frobisher Bay, in the Canadian Territory of Nunavut, is named after him. It was also the former name of Nunavut's capital, Iqaluit, until 1987.
An early version of Thanksgiving was celebrated after safe landing of Frobisher's fleet in Newfoundland after an unsuccessful attempt to find the Northwest Passage. (Hogan. 2011)
Frobisher Crescent, part of the Barbican Estate in London, is named after Frobisher.
A stained glass window in memory of him can be found in All Saints Church, Normanton nearby to his birthplace in Altofts, West Yorkshire
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)