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Abacuk Pricket was the navigator of the Discovery on the fourth voyage of captain Henry Hudson.He was one of the mutineers who set Hudson adrift along with his teenage son John, and seven crewmen in a small boat, and then returned to England, eventually being one of only eight sailors who made it back to England alive. [1]
Henry Hudson (c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, ... Hudson's voyages to North America.
Robert Bylot (fl. 1610–1616) was an English explorer who made four voyages to the Arctic. [1] He was uneducated and from a working-class background, but was able to rise to rank of master in the English Royal Navy .
His fourth voyage was spent scanning the Central American coast. The Spanish voyages of Christopher Columbus opened the New World. Genoese navigator and explorer Giovanni Caboto (known in English as John Cabot) is credited with the discovery of continental North America on June 24, 1497, under the commission of Henry VII of England. Though the ...
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland" Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson ...
The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic. [2] In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland ...
1607 – Henry Hudson coasts the east coast of Greenland, naming "Hold-with-Hope" (around 73°N). [54] 1609 – Hudson sails the Halve Maen up the Hudson River as far north as present-day Albany, New York. [55] 1610 – Étienne Brûlé ascends the Ottawa River and reaches Lake Nipissing and Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. [56]