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Profile: Samuel Hearne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Ian R. Stone
Ian R. Stone
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The Registry, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury CT2 7NZ
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Samuel Hearne is best known to students of polar history because of his famous overland expedition of 1770–72, when he became the first European to reach the northern coast of North America at the mouth of the Coppermine River. Fewer know of his other notable journeys, in which he established Cumberland House as an inland trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company; fewer still may be aware of his capture, while Governor of Prince of Wales' Fort on Hudson Bay, by the French naval commander la Pérouse in 1782. That Hearne was an attractive and interesting character emerges clearly from his own account of his major expedition (a classic in exploration literature) and his other writings. However, he was also a figure of controversy, both during his life and subsequently, and this lends interest to his story.

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Polar Record , Volume 23 , Issue 142 , January 1986 , pp. 49 - 56
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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