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12 unusual facts about Henry Hudson


1610s in Canada

1610-11: The English explorer Henry Hudson, in Dutch service, continues the fruitless search for a passage to Asia.

Castleton-on-Hudson, New York

Castleton gets its name from the exploration of the North (Hudson) River by Henry Hudson.

Columbia City, Seattle

Three streets in the neighborhood bear names of other famous explorers, a Columbia Street already existing Downtown: Ferdinand Street after Magellan, Hudson Street after Henry Hudson, and Americus Street after Amerigo Vespucci.

Henry Hudson

The Hudson River in New York and New Jersey, explored earlier by Hudson, is named after him, as are Hudson County, New Jersey, the Henry Hudson Bridge, and the town of Hudson, New York.

Iron Confederacy

The Cree had been in contact with Europeans since around 1611 when Henry Hudson reached their ancestral homeland around Hudson and James Bays.

Isaac Massa

His notes on his various travels have been published in conjunction with maps by Henry Hudson.

John Gill Lemmon

to William Lemmon and Amila Hudson Lemmon, a descendant of Henry Hudson the explorer.

Lorenzo Clayton

The group exhibition featured work by contemporary artists from North and Central America creating artworks about the effects of Henry Hudson's contact with Indigenous people.

MS Westerdam

Paintings of historic Dutch ships, such as Henry Hudson's Halve Maen (Half Moon), and various sculptures and statues are displayed throughout the ship.

Paddy Conneely

Collector Henry Hudson (1798-1889) collected the greatest number of Conneely's tunes, his music manuscripts are now house in the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame's library.

Thomas Button

The first maps of areas near Hudson Bay were struck from his explorations and from those of his predecessor, Henry Hudson.

Thornbury Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

The land was "discovered" and explored by Henry Hudson in 1609, and over the next several decades it was variously claimed by the Swedes, the Dutch, and the English.


Cape May

The first European to catch a glimpse of Cape May was navigator Henry Hudson and 18 of his crew mates on the Halve Maen.

Digges Islands

In 1610, the first recorded encounter between Europeans and Nunavik Inuit occurred on Digges Islands during Henry Hudson's last expedition.

Digges Sound

Henry Hudson named many Arctic geographical features after patrons who financed his voyages, including Digges Sound in honor of Dudley Digges.

Wright Brothers flights of 1909

In 1909 Wilbur was invited by the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Committee to make paid exhibition flights to help mark 300 years of New York history, including Henry Hudson discovering Manhattan and Robert Fulton starting a successful commercial steamboat service on the Hudson River.