Short Essay On Henry Hudson English Explorer

Henry Hudson Henry Hudson was an English explorer and navigator in the early 17th century.He explored parts of the Arctic ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait are named after him. He attended Harvard University were he studied cartography, navigation, astronomy, mathematics and seamanship. He was hired by the Muscovy Company to find a waterway from Europe to Asia in 1607. He made two trips and failed to find a route to Asia. In 1609 he was hired by the Dutch India Company to find the Northwest Passage, on this trip he found the Hudson River.He was born in London, England.He was remembered so well because he mapped out unknown territory really well, and he didn't sail on the easiest

In June of 1611 is when he had his last voyage and his crew members and him were never heard from again. He came from a wealthy family, he had a grandfather also named Henry Hudson who was a founding member of the Merchant Adventures, which later became the Muscovy trading company. He was born sometime in the late 1500s the exact date and year are not known. He got married to a woman named Katherine and together they had three sons. John, Richard, and Oliver, John one of his sons was set out to go one time fourth voyage with his father.In one of his journals he described a fish like thing swimming alongside their ship. Henry Hudson’s first voyage was to find the Northwest Passage and with how smart he was people believed he could. The ship he sailed on was a small three masted ship called Hopewell. He started this voyage in May of 1607 and came back September of that year because the Great Barrier Reef was blocking his way. On this voyage he did end up finding Whale’s Bay, which started the coal mining industry. He was paid by the English Muscovy Company to find the Northwest passage, but wind and ice ended up making him turn around instead. Henry Hudson made it all the way to the Svalbard archipelago north of Norway before he was