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English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611)

Henry Hudson [Henry Hudson]

(c. 1550– c. 1611) an English ↑explorer who, when he was looking for the ↑North-west Passage in 1609–10, discovered what are now called the ↑Hudson River and Hudson Bay, a very large sea in north-eastern Canada connected with the North Atlantic by the Hudson Strait. In 1611 some of his men turned against him there, and put him in a small boat with his 12-year old son. They were never seen again.