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Hudson, Henry

Born about 1550; died 1611. English navigator.

In search of a northern sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, Hudson made four voyages in the arctic seas from 1607 to 1611, voyages organized by London and Amsterdam merchants who were seeking new routes to China and India that would circumvent Spanish and Portuguese possessions. In 1607, intending to get through to the Pacific Ocean by way of the north pole, he went to 80° 23” N lat. and discovered Jan Mayen Island on the way. In 1608 he tried unsuccessfully to find a passage between Spitsbergen and Novaia Zemlia. In 1609, in the service of the Dutch East India Company, he set off first to the Barents Sea and from there to the shores of North America to seek the Northwest Passage; he surveyed part of the coast of the continent, discovered the mouth of the Hudson River, and traveled 250 km up the river. In 1610 he got through to the west by a strait (Hudson Strait) between Labrador and Baffin Island and discovered a vast bay (Hudson Bay). In its southern part (James Bay) Hudson’s ship spent the winter. On the return voyage in 1611, the crew mutinied. Hudson, his son, and seven sailors, who were put off the ship into a small boat, disappeared without a trace.

REFERENCES

Mowat, F. Ispytanie I’dom. Moscow, 1966. Chapter 2. (Translated from English.)
Powys, L. Henry Hudson. London, 1928.
Neatby, L. H. In Quest of the North West Passage. Toronto, 1958.

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