Re: Ditching. Landing a plane on water

Peter Duncanson:
I was going to mention that the Hudson Strait is always thus,
not Hudson's, then I found a reference in the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Strait

Further reading
Payne, F. F. Eskimo of Hudson's Strait. Toronto?: s.n.], 1889.

They changed together, I think. In the Historical Atlas of Canada,
all the older maps in English showing that area have Hudson's (or
Hudsons) Bay, Baffin's (or Baffins) Bay, Hudson's (or Hudsons) Strait
(or Straits or Straights or Straet) if those places are on the map.
The Davis Strait was Fretum Davis on early maps even in English,
but then Davis's Strait (or Straights or Streit). One map did use
Davis Strait, but this was a map that spelled Baffins Bay without an
apostrophe, so I take it to mean Davis' Strait.

There is also one map in French that has "Golfe de Hudson, ou Hudson
Bay" -- incidentally using the short s in the first Hudson and the
tall s in the second one! -- but I assume that was a translation error.
(On later maps it was a Baye in French, which would now be spelled Baie.)

Anyway, the later maps starting around 1897 that have Hudson Bay
similarly have Hudson Strait, Baffin Bay, and Davis Strait.
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My text in this article is in the public domain.
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