This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait
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AP US History Flashcards | Quizlet  He discovered the North American bay, river, and strait that bear his name. .... It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American ... It was precipitated by a British sea captain, Robert Jenkins, who appeared before ... was a movement within Lutheranism that began in the late 17th century,...
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Free Flashcards about J Explorers - StudyStack  Born in Brittany, he voyaged to Canada & discovered the St. Lawrence River where he founded Montreal. ... In 1615 this explorer who has a large island & bay named for him searched for the Northwest ... This 17th century English sea captain gave his name to a large North American bay, a river & a strait while serving the...
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Explorers from the 1600's - EnchantedLearning.com  Almost a century later (in 1696), the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh landed on ... navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson. ... After his Canadian expeditions, Kelsey returned to his native England and...
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Captain Cook - History World  Exploring the river now known by his name, he soon realizes that it is not the strait he is ... He has not been the first European to explore either the strait or the bay ... Interest is maintained in the early 17th century when Dutch ships, sailing to and ... valley of north America, watered by the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers,...
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Henry Hudson - Wikipedia  Sir Henry Hudson (died 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. ... His name also lives on with the Hudson's Bay Company that explored and worked in the vast Hudson Bay ... This large company, and one of the longest lasting, was very successful with fur trading all across North America.
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MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 ...  It stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up .... No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the ...... as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic ..... A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a passage to...
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Henry Hudson - Wikipedia  Sir Henry Hudson (died 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to ... He explored the Hudson River (which is named after him), and laid thereby the ... 3 1609 voyage; 4 16101611 voyage.
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What is a Name  The Golden Gate? - Golden Gate Bridge  The strait of water flowing between the San Francisco peninsula and the ... Captain John C. Fremont gazed at the narrow strait that separates the Bay for the Pacific ... to this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae or Golden Gate for the same ... the entrance to San Francisco Bay appeared for the first time on Preuss' map.
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Jeopary Questions page 1904 - METALS - TriviaBistro.com  EARLY AMERICA: In 1626 this Dutchman arrived in New York Harbor aboard the ship Sea-Mew & settled on Manhattan  HOMOPHONES: A Scottish...
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Great River of the West | Discovering Lewis & Clark   Gray's Ship: The Columbia Rediviva ... Under the command of Captain Robert Gray the Columbia left Boston again on October 1, 1790, ... Resuming his pursuit of Indian trade in the spring, on May 11, 1792, Gray took the ... His entry in his log was terse: "we found this to be a large river of fresh water, up which we steered.
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Henry Hudson - Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... The Hudson Bay and Hudson River are named after intrepid English explorer Henry Hudson. ... made two unsuccessful sailing voyages in search of an ice-free passage to Asia. In 1609, he embarked on a third voyage that took him to the New ... Aboard the ship Discovery, Hudson left England in April 1610.
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Captain Robert Gray - Oregon Pioneers  Captain Robert Gray, a Yankee trader, was born in Rhode Island in 1755. ... procured and made ready for sea a ship, the Columbia, and a little sloop, the Lady Washington. ... Yet his movements suggest that he was exploring for the River of the West. ... At the same time he was looking for a safe harbor in which to lay over.
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Explorers  They called the route they were looking for the Northwest Passage. ... Some places still have names from Aboriginal languages, such as Ottawa. .... The Mi'kmaq made signals to show Cartier they wanted to trade with him. ... He discovered a bay near a large island, which was later named Baffin Island after William Baffin,...
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J! Archive - Show #2351, aired 1994-11-21  Several English rivers bear this name; the one associated with Shakespeare .... The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk fixed China's border with this country along the...
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Henry Hudson - Wikipedia  Sir Henry Hudson (died 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th ... He explored the Hudson River (which is named after him), and laid thereby ... Hudson is thought to have spent many years at sea, beginning as a cabin ... he heard rumors of a northwest route to the Pacific through North America.
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Chapter Seven of TINKERBELLE by Robert Manry  Because of the numerous shoals, strong tidal currents, thick fog at certain seasons...the ... with velocities of two to five knots at strength make navigation dangerous." .... the year 1000, and by French and Spanish fishermen in the fourteen-hundreds. .... because, on a course for England the prevailing winds were westerlies.
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Show #3949 - Thursday, November 1, 2001 - J! Archive  World Book reports 3-foot-long trout are among the fish found in this lake that borders Peru & Bolivia ... This New York City river is actually a tidal strait connecting upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound ... The dog Soter warned the citizens of an attack in this ancient Greek port city founded by Dorians...
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Francis Drake's Course in the North Pacific, 1579 - Gamma Theta ...  Jun 1, 1979 ... For over twenty years now it has been the privitege ... of the story of what actually happened ... the Pacific coast of North America. ... Drake's circumnavigation voyage, ... as well state my conviction that the ... suggested in his book, Sir Francis ..... Guatulco Bay is described in the .... to sail directly into the west.
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Origin of State Names - Barrington 220  The Spanish explorers originally thought that California may have been an island. ... Lake Michigan was named by European explorers in the 1670s. ... From the Chippewa Indian word meaning either large river or Father of Waters. .... An English form of the name that French explorer Samuel de Champlain gave to...
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Robert Gray's Columbia River expedition - Wikipedia  In May 1792, American merchant sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded European to navigate into it. The voyage, conducted on the Columbia Rediviva, a privately owned ship, .... Due to Gray's naming the river for his ship, the name Columbia has been attached to several names...
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Henry Hudson - Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... The Hudson Bay and Hudson River are named after intrepid English explorer Henry Hudson. ... English explorer Henry Hudson embarked on multiple sailing voyages ... In 1609, he embarked on a third voyage funded by the Dutch East India ... the door to further exploration and settlement of North America.