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Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hudso... Henry Hudson was the English navigator who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1609 and became the first European to sail up what is now the Hudson River in New York. Hudson explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson.
Hudson, Henry. Resentment among his crew broke into mutiny in the spring when Hudson announced his intention to continue the search. The leaders, Henry Greene, Robert Juet and William Wilson, forced Hudson, his son and 7 others into a shallop and cut it adrift in the open sea. Robert BYLOT piloted the Discovery home. Greene and Wilson were killed by natives at Cape Digges; Juet died of starvation. Four of the 9 survivors were tried for murder but acquitted-saved as much by mercantile interest in their knowledge of the Northwest as by the blame laid on the dead. Nothing is known of Hudson's fate. He did not discover Hudson Strait-both M. FROBISHER and J. DAVIS had noted its entrance-but in navigating its treacherous course he far outdistanced his predecessors and discovered a route to the continent's interior of inestimable value to England.