DNA analysis identifies senior officer from Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition
"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition" by Stenton, Fratpietro and Park ...
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Canadian team locates English vessels lost in 1845 in the Northwest Passage
Sir John Franklin led the two ships and 129 men in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The expedition's disappearance shortly after became one of the great mysteries of the ...
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In a 1st, DNA analysis reveals identity of captain cannibalized during ill-fated Franklin expedition
a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago. Fitzjames ...
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Sir John Franklin
The famous Arctic explorer Sir ... west passage a navigable route from the Atlantic to the Pacific from which he never returned. Dr John Rae, explorer based in Canada, found out about the fate of the ...