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Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.
In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up what is now called the Hudson River in search of the Passage; encouraged by the saltiness of the water in the estuary, he reached present-day Albany, New York, before giving up. On September 14, 1609, Hudson entered the Tappan Zee while sailing upstream from New York Harbor. At first, Hudson believed the widening ...
1891–1892: The East Greenland expedition on the Hekla led by Carl Ryder fails to get through the sea ice of east Greenland, but explores the Scoresby Sound system in detail; 1891–1892: Second Peary expedition to Greenland led by Peary to discover if Greenland is an island or a peninsula
After two failed attempts to reach East Asia by circumnavigating Siberia, Henry Hudson sailed west in 1609 under the Dutch East India Company. He, too, passed Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay, instead sailing up the Hudson River on September 11, 1609 in search of a fabled connection to the Pacific via what was actually the Great Lakes.
1607 – Henry Hudson coasts the east coast of Greenland, naming "Hold-with-Hope" (around 73°N). [54] 1609 – Hudson sails the Halve Maen up the Hudson River as far north as present-day Albany, New York. [55] 1610 – Étienne Brûlé ascends the Ottawa River and reaches Lake Nipissing and Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. [56]
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Kennedy Channel (Danish: Kennedykanalen; French: Passage Kennedy) is an Arctic sea passage between Greenland and Canada's most northerly island, Ellesmere. It was named by Elisha Kane around 1854 during his second Arctic voyage in search of the lost Franklin expedition.
The island served as a rest stop for Henry Hudson and his crew during his ill-fated journeys to find the Northwest Passage in 1610–1611. [citation needed] On July 3, 2018, a man from Arviat was killed in a rare polar bear attack on the island. The man was on the island with his children when the polar bear approached them and attacked ...