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Bookmark or Share- Franklin's lost expedition - WikipediaFranklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
- His Ship Vanished in the Arctic 176 Years Ago. DNA Has Offered a Clue.Gregory, who had never been to sea before, was aboard the H.M.S. Erebus, one of two ships to sail in Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage, a sea route through ...
- How the Discovery of Two Lost Ships Solved an Arctic MysteryIn 1848, the Franklin expedition’s two ships, H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror, disappeared with all their crew while searching for the Northwest Passage.Their fate is one of the enduring ...
- Terror in the Arctic: The Doomed Quest of HMS Terror and Erebus ...It tells of the death of 24 men, including Franklin, the abandonment of his expedition’s ships HMS Erebus and Terror, and a desperate plan to trek overland to safety. Found in 1859 inside a cairn on King William Island, the Victory Point Record is one of the most evocative documents in the history of Arctic exploration. It is crucial evidence ...
- Race against time to unlock secrets of Erebus shipwreck and doomed ...HMS Erebus in the Ice by François-Étienne Musin, 1846. Illustration: GL Archive/Alamy. Victorian society was appalled and Rae was denounced, with his chief persecutor, Charles Dickens, claiming ...
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