Hudson Strait, Nunavut, Canada.
The Hudson's Bay Company ships
Prince of Wales and
Eddystone bartering with the
Inuit off the Upper Savage Islands, Hudson Strait; by Robert Hood (1819)
links the
Atlantic Ocean to
Hudson Bay in
Canada. It lies between
Baffin Island and the northern coast of
Quebec, its eastern entrance marked by
Cape Chidley and
Resolution Island. It is long. Its width varies from at its largest point, to a minimum of .
Discovered by explorer
Henry Hudson in the year 1610 aboard the British ship
Discovery, it was long thought to be the fabled
Northwest Passage.
