Henry Hudson - Part 1 - the Northeast Passage

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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British explorer Henry Hudson goes searching for a new route to Asia. His first attempt it to go north - to the North Pole and over the top of the world. When that doesn't work, he goes east - over Russia and towards Novaya Zemlya. The Explorers Podcast is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	all night long. Hello and welcome to the explorers podcast. Today we start a new series this on English
1:00.5	mariner Henry Hudson. Hudson conducted four voyages of exploration in the early
1:05.4	1600s, primarily trying to find a route to Asia via the Northwest Passage as well as the
1:10.9	Northeast Passage. His name is quite popular in the United States in Canada.
1:15.0	The Hudson River, Hudson Bay, the Hudson Bay Company,
1:18.0	are just a few of the places and organizations that sport Hudson's name.
1:22.0	Also, Hudson's third voyage was the foundation for Dutch colonization in the area around what today is New York City.
1:29.0	I have one note to start out today.
1:31.0	There is a map of Hudson's voyages and the location of key places on our website
1:35.2	Explorers Podcast.com. That is it for notes. Let's get going. I'll start today by talking
1:41.2	a little bit about the state of exploration in Europe,
1:43.7	Circa 1600. Exploration at this time was very much driven by money.
1:48.8	People wanted to find places with valuable resources or reach places that had valuable stuff.
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