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William Penny was born on 12 July 1809 at Peterhead, Scotland. He made his first whaling voyage at the age of twelve, sailing to the Greenland Sea in Alert under the command of his father, by 1829 had risen to the rank of mate. In 1832, while fishing with little success off Pond Inlet in Traveller, Penny persuaded his captain, George Simpson, to explore Lancaster Sound where they killed a large number of whales. Returning with Simpson to northern Baffin Bay the following year on the British Whaling and Exploring Expedition, Penny was sent to investigate Eskimo reports of a large bay further to the south where whales abounded. Discovering Exeter Sound, Penny sailed about 50km into it before adverse winds forced him to turn back.

Penny returned to Baffin Bay in 1839 in command of Neptune, searching for a large whaling ground reputed to lie in the unexplored waters farther south, in an inlet known to the indigenous peoples as 'Tenudiakbeek'. Failing to locate the inlet, Penny returned to Scotland with a guide named Eenoolooapik, who accompanied him the following year in Bon Accord on the British Whaling and Exploring Expedition. At the end of July, Penny located the sound running into Baffin Island off Davis Strait that Eenoolooapik confirmed was 'Tenudiakbeek'. Naming it Hogarth's Sound, Penny had, in fact, rediscovered Cumberland Sound, first discovered by John Davis in the sixteenth century. Although large numbers of whales migrated into the sound in early September, Penny returned to Scotland having failed to take a single whale.

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