Best, George (died c. 1584)

English navigator and chronicler of the three Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher. He took part in the voyages of 1577 and 1578, when Frobisher attempted to establish gold mining settlements on southern Baffin Island.

His account of the voyages, A True Discourse of the late Voyages of Discoverie for the Finding of a Passage to Cathaya by the North-weast under the conduct of Martin Frobisher (1578) (republished in V Stefansson, The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, 1938) is widely admired for the perceptiveness of his observations on the geography, climate, and Inuit of Baffin Island. Nothing further is known of his career, except that he was killed in a duel about 1584.