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Upon his return, England’s royal council forbid Hudson from ever sailing under another flag, and he was sent back to the New World in 1610 aboard the English ship Discovery. Hudson’s objective was, once again, to find a northern passage to the Orient, but he would never return from that trip.

His crew began to starve and Hudson did not treat them well. Finally, the crew mutinied against Hudson. They put him and few loyal crew members into a small boat and left them adrift in the bay. Then they returned home to England.

Winter weather hit the region and Discovery had become trapped in thick ice. Hudson’s crew became angry. They wanted to return to Europe, but Hudson wanted to continue searching for a passage to Asia. The crew sailed Discovery back to Europe and Henry Hudson was never seen again.

Henry Hudson faced many different challenges. The worst hardship he faced was the ice that could crack the boat in half. Hudson on his first voyage went through a lot of fog. Fog is one of the worst things you can have if you are an explorer because you can not see where you are going.

What was Henry Hudson’s legacy? Henry Hudson contributed significantly to our understanding of the geography of North America, especially of its northeastern waterways. In his memory, several bodies of water that he navigated now bear his name: Hudson Bay, the Hudson River, and Hudson Strait.

Henry Hudson | 10 Facts On The Famous English Explorer

• #1 Little is known about the early life of Henry Hudson.
• #2 He made four attempts to find a northerly passage to Asia.
• #3 No European had navigated so far north as Hudson did in 1607.
• #4 He was the first European to explore the Arctic Ocean.
• #5 He made his third voyage for the Dutch East India Company.

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Henry Hudson made his first voyage west from England in 1607, when he was hired to find a shorter route to Asia from Europe through the Arctic Ocean. Hudson’s discoveries laid the groundwork for Dutch colonization of the Hudson River region, as well as English land claims in Canada.

Henry Hudson made four voyages in search of a water route to the Far East. His first two voyages were through Arctic waters and proved to be unsuccessful due to ice. His third and fourth voyages were to North America where he discovered and sailed the Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay.

While he was on his first voyage, he sailed through a small bay of water and found some First Nations living there. He traded some treasure for coats made out of fur and made sure that when his first voyage was over he would tell the Muscovy Company about the small bay of water.

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Henry Hudson brought tools, grains, and livestock from the Old World. He also brought diseases, such as smallpox, typhus, and measles, which ended up killing many Native Americans. The Mohicans traded tobacco, maize, and furs from deer and squirrels from the New World.

Halve Maen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɑlvə maːn]; English: Half Moon) was a Dutch East India Company vlieboot (similar to a carrack) that sailed into what is now New York Harbor in September 1609. She was commissioned by the VOC Chamber of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to covertly find a western passage to China.

The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river in New York. The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609, and after whom Canada’s Hudson Bay is also named.

Other ongoing pollution problems affecting the river include: accidental sewage discharges, urban runoff, heavy metals, furans, dioxin, pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Numerous factories that once lined the Hudson River poured garbage and industrial waste directly into the river.

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This results in a total of 59 bodies floating down the lower Hudson every year (49 or 50 from NYC, 5 or 6 from Bergen County, and about 4 from Hudson County).

In 2015, amateur fisherman Wu Zhen caught a shark in the Hudson River near Battery Park in New York City, the New York Post reports. The DEC told the New York Post, while its rare, smooth dogfish sharks have been found in the Hudson River in the past.

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According to local lore, the Strid has a 100 per cent fatality rate when it comes to those who have fallen in while trying to jump between the moss-covered slippery banks. Tourists are left in no doubt about the dangers.

The name originates from the Old English word weorf, which is translated as “winding river.” The windiness of the river – and of the Strid – only adds to its danger, as the speed of the water and the jagged edges of the banks have, over time, lead to underground caves and tunnels being worn away.

‘The Strid’ Break down ‘Britain’s most dangerous river’ into its basic form then look no further than the Bolton Strid, a section of the river Wharfe located a stone’s throw from Bolton Abby in the southern aspect of the Yorkshire Moors.

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