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Bookmark or Share- Sir John Franklin | Encyclopedia.comThe English explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) is perhaps the most important figure in the search for the Northwest Passage. In the 40-year period after the Napoleonic Wars, the British Admiralty took up the challenge of finding the elusive Northwest Passage, along the northern coast of North America between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- John Franklin - WikipediaSir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States , he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago , in 1819 and 1825 , and served as Lieutenant-Governor ...
- Franklin expedition: DNA test identifies member of 1845 Arctic voyage - BBCIn 1845, Sir John Franklin, an officer in the British Royal Navy, took two ships and 129 men towards the Northwest Territories in an attempt to map the Northwest Passage. If charted properly,...
- 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 a...
- Franklin expedition | Ships, History, Theories, Discoveries, & FactsFranklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. All 129 crew members.
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