Samuel Hearne Is the First European to Reach the Arctic Ocean by Land Route
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In the late 1760s reports from Native American traders at the Hudson's Bay Company's Prince of Wales ...
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Samuel Hearne
1745-1792
English Explorer
The first European to travel across the vast interior of northern Canada, Samuel Hearne also became the first to reach the Arctic Ocean from North America via ...
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Samuel Hearne (1745-1792) was an English explorer who surveyed the Coppermine River, discovered the "Northern Ocean," and searched for the Northwest Passage.Samuel Hearne was born in London, the son o...
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When Samuel Hearne, on foot, reached the central Arctic shore of North America in 1771, he finished a centuries-old will-o'-the-wisp of the European imagination--a navigable Northwest Passage through ...
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Samuel Hearne Is the First European to Reach the Arctic Ocean by Land Route
Samuel Hearne
Samuel Hearne
