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Samuel Hearne was an English explorer who surveyed the Coppermine River, discovered the "Northern Ocean," and searched for the Northwest Passage. Upon his father's death in the family moved to Beaminster in Dorsetshire.

Samuel Hearne (February – November ) was an English explorer, fur-trader, author and naturalist.

The attempts of Samuel's mother to educate him seem to have failed: his spelling and grammar left much to be desired, although his mathematics was surprisingly reliable. He went to sea as servant to Capt. Samuel Hood, who had lived in Beaminster. Hearne's years at sea gave him useful experience for his future travels in Canada: he fought the French in and took part in bombarding the French coast.

Thus, he grew hardened by the life and weather at sea. Perhaps, also, he gained some insight into the importance of navigation and the attendant sciences of geography and astronomy.

HEARNE, SAMUEL, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist; b.

In Hearne joined the Hudson's Bay Company as a seaman, sailed from Churchill on summer whaling expeditions, gained a knowledge of Eskimo life, and sought a future as a master in one of the company's ships. But after the incompetent Moses Norton, the governor of Prince of Wales Fort at Churchill, sent him on three fruitless voyages in search of copper over what became known, after Hearne's discoveries, as the "Barren Lands.

It was poorly organized by Norton. From this expedition Hearne learned that Indians could not be pushed and that he would not travel with other Europeans, for he had found them unable to take the hardships of travel in the Canadian sub-arctic. Norton sent Hearne on his second expedition in February Again Hearne had a poor Indian guide, both in the sense of geographical knowledge and influence among his fellow natives.

The accidental breaking of Hearne's quadrant forced their return on November 25, for without this instrument he would have been unable to fix the exact positions of the Coppermine River according to instructions.