Arctic-Oceanic New York

In the summer of 1609, under orders from theDutch East India Company to venture north by northeast towards the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, the English navigator Henry Hudson erred: thwarted by icepack, and unwilling to return so soon to his Dutch patrons, he sailed west instead, journeying down the North American coast that his friend John Smith had described to him. Entering what we now know as New York Harbor in September 1609, he sailed up a river called the North River, a waterway that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano sighted in 1524 but never In the summer of 1609, under orders from theDutch East India Company to venture north by northeast towards the Russian archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, the English navigator Henry Hudson erred: thwarted by icepack, and unwilling to return so soon to his Dutch patrons, he sailed west instead, journeying down the North American coast that his friend John Smith had described to him. Entering what we now know as New York Harbor in September 1609, he sailed up a river called the North River, a waterway that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano sighted in 1524 but never.