Simpson Thomas 1808-1840 Born In Dingwall Scotland Educated At


University of Aberdeen. In 1829 appointed secretary to his cousin, Sir

George Simpson, resident governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. With

Peter Warren Dease, commanded an expedition to connect the discoveries

on the Arctic coast of Sir John Ross and Sir George Back, and in July,

1837, arrived at Foggy Island Bay, the farthest point reached by Sir

John Franklin. Surveyed the Arctic coast of North America, from the

mouth of the Mackenzie to Point Barrow, and from the Coppermine River to

the Gulf of Bothnia, and solved the problem of the existence of a

passage by water between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era)

His explorations of Arctic coast, 225. =Bib.=: Narrative of the

Discoveries on the North Coast of America, 1826-1829. For biog., see

Simpson, Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson.



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