![]() Hudson was probably trying to gather additional information on the feasibility of the Northwest Passage, which would lead to Asia through English whalers subsequently called it Trinity Island, while Dutch whalers gave the landfall On the way home Hudson sailed about 800 km off course and in the process sighted a volcanic speck of rock north of Iceland that became known as Hudson’s Tutches. ![]() This placed him beyond latitude 80° north, a record-setting effort, but the cold reality of Arctic ice made further progress Hudson was able to sail above Spitsbergen, one of the islands of Svalbard, an archipelago between Norway and the North Pole. At the time, Hudson and others thought that the long summer days of the high Arctic might create an ice-free zone at the top of the world. The Arctic, over the North Pole, to Asia. It was an attempt to find a passage through The voyage was associated with Sir Thomas Smythe, a leading figure in the East India Company. Henry Hudson (with his son John) made his first known voyage in 1607 in the Hopewell, with a crew of 12. He had a wife, Katherine, and three sons, Oliver, John and Richard. Were associated with the Muscovy Company, a London-based trading enterprise. He may have been related to a number of men named Hudson (sometimes spelled Hoddesdon or Herdson) who He was probably born around 1570 and in his late thirties when he began making his known voyages in 1607. Little is known about Henry Hudson’s origins. ![]() Hudson's discovery of a route to the continent's interior proved of inestimable value to England, woodcut (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/C-17727). ![]()
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