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.