Short biography of henry hudson

September 12,

England

Disappeared

Atlantic Ocean

English navigator and explorer

"[The chiefs] concluded it [the Half Moon] to be a large canoe or house, in which the great Mannitto (great or Supreme Being) himself was, and that he was probably coming to visit them."

Translation of traditional Delaware story by John Heckewelder.

Henry Hudson was an English explorer whose career was marked by both success and failure.

Although he never managed to find either the Northeast Passage or the Northwest Passage to China, he did explore what came to be known as the Hudson River and the Hudson Bay (in present-day New York). His exploration of the Hudson River in led to the formation of the Dutch West India Company, a group which founded the colony of New Netherland (later New York) in During a second attempt to find the Northwest Passage in , Hudson became the first explorer to sail through the Hudson Strait.

During the following summer of , Hudson's cr