Henry Hudson: Explorer's Hall Of Fame

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Many people who know Henry Hudson think of him as just an explorer who never actually completed his life goal. However, he was no ordinary addict to exploring, he stood out like a bright star in the dead of night. Henry Hudson made four expeditions, and everyone took about a year. This is one reason that I believe that Henry Hudson should be admitted into the Explorers Hall of Fame. Hudson sailed farther north and covered the most land and oceans than any of the previous explorers before him. He dedicated three of his expeditions all just to discover a northwest passage. He was an indefatigable explorer, and he had the spirit of a wildcat. Also, by the end of Henry Hudson’s fourth expedition, as courageous as a Spartan, he didn’t want to
At this time, he was looking to find a passage to the Orient through the north across the pole. It was a theory of several geographers back then that because of the constant sunshine around the world, the Arctic actually got warmer the further north you went. They thought that the sun would melt the ice at the poles, and if you sailed due north, you'd eventually reach open water. Hudson believed in this theory, and never gave up on it. He was never loath when it came to exploring. When he got to this area, he found that there was ice all over the place. The ice would bite at the edges of the boat. After this experience, Henry and the crew decided that the voyage would be over. However, this isn’t his last
It was made in the year of 1610, and the month of April. On this voyage, he is still exuberant about finding a Northwest Passage. Henry Hudson ended up sailing through the treacherous Arctic waters north of modern Quebec - the Furious Overfall - known today as Hudson's Strait although he did not discover it - and into a large body of water now known as Hudson Bay. The currents in the strait intensified, and they were rapid and turbulent there, which lead them to think it was a place leading to an ocean. All of the waters would try to break his boat here. They thought they had found it! They then realized it wasn’t

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