"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage ... Island where 451 bones from at least 13 ...
Fitzjames was part of an expedition led by Sir John Franklin that set out in 1845 from ... DNA from a tooth attached to a ...
Dr John Rae, explorer based in Canada, found out about the fate of the expedition. But definite evidence of Franklin's death was not found until 1859 when Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock led a ...