Henry Hudson


This painting by Robert Walter Weir shows what it may have looked like as Henry Hudson explored the waterways of North America in the search for the elusive North West Passage. Hudson was later marooned by his crew for his determined efforts to discover this route in the icy waters of Northern Canada.


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