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The articles has yet to document much of the effect of the Ice Ages on the Hudson. I now longer have the paper I wrote on this 5 decades ago. Addition of this geologic history would be a great improvement to this article. — Lentower ( talk) 00:53, 6 December 2022 (UTC) reply

Carving by catastrophic draining of ice age pro-glacial lakes

The Hudson Canyon & much of the Geology of the Hudson Valley was carved by catastrophic draining of ice age pro-glacial lakes. One of these events is mentioned in Mohawk River#Geology. — Lentower ( talk) 01:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC) reply

Staten Island / Long Island

The article mention that the Hudson got a new outlet to the Atlantic, when it broke through the combined Staten & Long Islands. That "super" Island was formed as terminal moraines(s) of the last few Ice Ages. This might be mentioned in the source given. ^[1] — Lentower ( talk) 01:07, 6 December 2022 (UTC) reply

According to the article, John Carwitham's 1740 plan of NYC was the first to use the name "Hudson('s) River". This is patently untrue. The name appears in a 1664 charter granting what had been New Netherland to the Duke of York, and also in a map produced in the same year. Zacwill ( talk) 01:53, 2 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Here is a still earlier attestation, from Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625). Zacwill ( talk) 22:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC) reply

The wording is wonky, but the article says it's the first to use the term on a map, and neither of those are maps. The [ NYT article] linked to also says that it was "customarily called" Hudson's at the time. Harryhenry1 ( talk) 03:10, 19 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Even with that caveat, the claim isn't true. See the map linked in my first post. Zacwill ( talk) 16:38, 19 January 2024 (UTC) reply