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Henry Hudson was exploring the New World to locate among other things, a passage to the Far East. He traveled up a large river later known the Hudson River. The river was named after him. Upon sailing up this river he discovered that it was not a passage to the far east.
Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was the first European to sail up the Hudson River.
Henry Hudson sailed down by North Carolina. He started to immediately go North, exploring Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay. He then started to go further up, and traveled into what is now called the Hudson River. :)
No. Henry the Navigator was the monarch of Portugal in the middle 15th century who sent off many Portuguese expeditions of discovery to Africa and India. Henry Hudson was actually Hendrick Hudsun, a Dutch adventurer in the employ of Bristol (England) merchants who discovered New York in the 16th century.