It's also rapidly making the Northwest Passage -- the passable sea route sought by Henry Hudson and other explorers of the 16th and 17th centuries -- fully navigable in the summer.

European explorers had long speculated about the existence of an Arctic route that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and would avoid the long journey around South America’s Cape Horn.

Four hundred years ago, in 1609, Henry Hudson sailed the Half Moon, ... He continued on up what is now the Hudson River, until he realized it could not possibly be the Northwest Passage ...

NEW BIOGRAPHY OF HENRY HUDSON; Intrepid Sea Explorer and His Lucky Voyage Which Failed to Find the Northwest Passage. Experiences of a Great Editor. Share full article. March 28, 1908.

When the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s landing in New York takes place this month, there is a good chance that an elementary-school student will know more about the man than you do. Why ...

When in the late spring of 1497, John Cabot, middle-aged Italian navigator, hired out to England's Henry VII and sailed westward from Bristol, his destination was Asia, in particular Mecca, ...

Jan. 24, 1583, Capt. Hudson advised Capt. John Davis concerning his search for a northwest passage to China, and that our Henry Hudson was well acquainted with Capt. Thomas Hudson is well ...

For centuries solid ice defeated attempts by global traders to find a way through the Northwest Passage. Now global warming has done just that. ... The English mariner Henry Hudson made four attempts ...

For centuries, able seafarers failed to find the Northwest Passage, among them John Cabot, Henry Hudson, Francis Drake and James Cook. Harsh weather, thick ice and treacherous shallows forced many ...