Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson (c. 1565–1611) was an English navigator whose voyages in search of a northern sea route to Asia charted the river, strait and bay that now bear his name. Little is known of his early life, but in 1607 and 1608 he led two voyages for London's Muscovy Company into Arctic waters. His turning point came in 1609, when, sailing for the Dutch East India Company aboard the Half Moon, he traveled up the river later named for him to near present-day Albany. That voyage laid the groundwork for the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the settlement that became New York. In 1610 he returned under the English flag aboard the Discovery and entered Hudson Bay. After a hard winter in the ice, his crew set him adrift in a small boat with his son and several companions in 1611, and he was never seen again.
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Seeking a Passage to the Pacific
For centuries explorers sought a waterway across or around North America to the Pacific. Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence River, Henry Hudson explored the river and bay that bear his name, and James Cook searched the Arctic coast from the Pacific side. Sent by Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark crossed the continent overland, and Roald Amundsen became the first to sail the Northwest Passage.
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