Thomas Button

Thomas Button († April 1634 ) was an English navigator and Arctic explorer who discovered the west coast of Hudson Bay to England.

Button broke in May 1612 two ships ( the Resolution and Discovery ) from England to the Hudson Bay in order to find the polar explorer Henry Hudson, who was in 1611 exposed by mutinous crew members in the Arctic and has since been lost, and the Northwest Passage.

He reached the mouth of a river, which he named after a deceased crew member Nelson River. After the crew had wintered in Fort Nelson, button broke in the following year journey to the North to search for the Northwest Passage. In this Polarfahrt Button lost the resolution in the ice, discovered Mansel Iceland and finally reached 65 ° north latitude. 1613 returned Button back to England without finding Hudson or the Northwest Passage.

Until his death, he served in the British Navy.

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