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Henry Hudson

Was a English explorer and navigator. He was born in 1565 and died in 1611. Years he traveled 1607,1608,1524,1609. Henry was born at England. When he traveled he was trying to find a new route to china without going the way Marco Polo did. One name of Henry Hudsons ships were the half moon,Hudson was hired by the Dutch east India in 1609,He found what is now called the Hudson river.He was hired to find a waterway from Europe to Asia,but he never did. He died in1611 after his crew mutinied and left Hudson his son and seven crew members adrift in a small open boat in Hudson bay.