Posted on January 20, 2011.
Hudson River Names
The names of the Hudson River to make a complicated story. It was called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, and Lenape Native Americans that called the UNAMI Muhheakantuck.
In the early days of European exploration of the Hudson was known as River Mauritius. What is said to be the name given by Henry Hudson in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau, but it is also said that the name given by sixteenth century European adventurers, explorers and fishermen who knew the river in Mauritius " The River of Mountains ". [Citation needed]
The Hudson was named the "North River" by the Dutch, who called the Delaware River the "South River." The name "North River" has been used in the New York area until early 1900, with limited use continues in modern times. The term persists in the radio communication between the commercial maritime traffic, especially below Tappan Zee.
It was the English who come from using the name "Hudson" ecause Hudson had found the river while exploring for the Dutch.
Geography
The official source of the Hudson is Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack Mountains. However, the waterway from the lake is known as Brook and feldspar Opalescent River, feeding into the Hudson Tahawus. The actual Hudson River begins several miles north of Henderson Lake Tahawus. The Hudson is joined at Troy (north of Albany) by the Mohawk River, its main tributary, just south of which the Federal Dam separates the Upper Hudson River Valley from the Lower Hudson River Valley or simply the Hudson River Valley. The river then flows south, passing between the Catskill Mountains and Taconic Mountains, expanding significantly to the Tappan Zee, then moved between the island of Manhattan and New Jersey Palisades and the Atlantic Ocean in New York Bay, an arm of the ocean, where it forms the port of New York.
View of the Hudson in the 1880s showing Jersey City
The lower Hudson is actually an estuary, with tidal influence extending as far as the Federal Dam at Troy. High tide, parts of New York Harbor difficult and dangerous to navigate. During the winter, ice floes drift south or north, depending on the tides. The name of Wolf River, Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, means "the river that flows both ways." [Citation needed] The Hudson is often mistaken for one of the largest rivers in the U.S. States, but it is an estuary in most of its length below Troy and therefore only a small fraction of freshwater, about 15,000 cubic feet (425 m) per second, is present. The freshwater flow through at the mouth of the river in New York is about 21,400 cubic feet (606 m) per second. Hudson Bay and its tributaries, including the Mohawk River, draining a large area. Parts of cracks under the Hudson River form, as Weehawken Cove in Hoboken and Weehawken.
The Hudson is sometimes called, in geological terms, a "drowned" river. The sea level after the withdrawal of the Wisconsin glaciation, the most recent ice age, led to a marine incursion that drowned the coastal plain and brought salt water well above the mouth of River. The old riverbed deeply eroded beyond the current shoreline, Hudson Canyon, is a rich fishing area. The former riverbed is clearly delineated beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, extending to the edge of the continental shelf.
Looking upstream of the Battery Park City in Manhattan
Hudson from Midtown Manhattan with Javits Convention Center in the foreground. New Jersey Palisades is visible across the River.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal ended at the Hudson in Kingston, running south-west in the coal fields.
