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Adriaen Block fl. 1610-24, Dutch navigator. Eager to establish a fur trade with the Native Americans, Amsterdam merchants sent (1613) Block and another Dutch navigator to explore the region discovered by Henry Hudson. After wintering near Albany, Block sailed from the Hudson into Long Island Sound (1614), which he may have been the first European to enter, coming in through the East River passage that he named Hellegat (Hell Gate). He discovered the Connecticut River, sailed past and named Block Island, and explored Narragansett Bay. Block made the Figurative Map of 1614, showing details of the southern coast of New England and showing (the first to do so) Long Island and Manhattan as separate.

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Block Island, Rhode Island/USA Manisses, Rhode Island First sighted in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485–1528), an Italian navigator. He called it Rhode Island because it appeared to him to resemble the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. It was renamed after Adriaen Block, a Dutch explorer, who visited it in 1614. The original Narragansett name meant ‘Manitou's Little Island’.

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