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Henry Hudson

English navigator and explorer
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John Edwards Caswell
Emeritus Professor of History, California State College, Stanislaus, Turlock, California. Author of Arctic Frontiers: U.S. Explorations in the Far North.
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Henry Hudson (born c. 1565, England—died after June 22, 1611, in or near Hudson Bay?) was an English navigator and explorer who, sailing three times for the English (1607, 1608, 1610–11) and once for the Dutch (1609), tried to discover a short route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean, in both the Old World and the New. A river, a strait, and a bay in North America are named for him. Of Hudson’s...

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