Explorations on the East Coast of Hudson Bay
1947; Wiley; Volume: 109; Issue: 1/3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1789902
ISSN1475-4959
Autores Tópico(s)Polar Research and Ecology
ResumoWhen we consider the primitive methods of map making and navigation available to Henry Hudson, and the difficulties of an arctic voyage in unknown waters his map2 of the east coast of Hudson Bay is remarkably clear. Hudson's journal unaccountably ends when he reached lat. 6i? 20' in 1610, over ten months before his death. Although an account of the voyage was written by one of the mutineers, Abacuk Prickett, the geographical details in this are so vague as to make interpretation little better than guesswork. On the southward voyage Hudson closely followed much of the east coast of the bay, perhaps often keeping within the islands that line the shore. homeward voyage may have been made farther out to sea, at least until Hudson was east adrift. In 1631, Luke Foxe, on his northward voyage from Vltimum Vale (Cape Henrietta Maria) when near lat. 570 40', says: Towards night, I layed to the West in maine course, for feare I might hazard my selfe in the night amongst those Hands which Mr. Hudson (for good reason) calls by the name of Lancaster's Iles.,, 3 There is no other record of Hudson having named islands in this region, though four islands are shown on his chart. A little farther north, near lat. 580 5', Foxe himself saw an island of which he says: Wee came by a small Hand at clocke one, the highest I haue seene since I came from Brooke Cobham 4; the deepe 70 fathome. I named the Ile Sleepe.5 From this presumably originated the name which has at times been used to designate all the islands north of, and perhaps sometimes including, the Belcher Islands up to lat. 6o?, the terms North, South, West, and being variously used to distinguish the different groups. Now the name is recognized for only the one group. In the future it may be convenient to call this group Lancaster Islands. name Sleeper Islands, or The Sleepers, could then be used for the islands between and including the Lancaster and Ottawa islands. In this paper I have felt the need for such an inclusive name.
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