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The Schwatka expedition found no remnants of the Franklin expedition south of a place now known as Starvation Cove on the Adelaide Peninsula. This was about 64 km (40 mi) north of Crozier's stated goal, the Back River, and several hundred miles away from the nearest Western outpost, on the Great Slave Lake.
When John Rae reported that found artifacts and Inuit testimony placed the death of final members of Franklin's lost expedition near Back's Great Fish River in 1850, Lady Jane Franklin called for an expedition to locate these remains. [1] A secondary goal was to secure any possible claim by Franklin as to discovery of the Northwest Passage.
Franklin's expedition included no interpreters or Inuit, whose regional expertise might have enhanced their chances of survival. Banks Island provided enough game to offset the severest onset of scurvy and wasting. [1] Franklin appears to have fared much worse, as the game near Beechey Island was more seasonal and sparse.
The fate of Franklin’s lost expedition is likely to remain a source of fascination, but piecing together the details of what happened will require a lot more information, including from the two ...
In September, Canadian officials announced they'd found a shipwreck they believed belonged to Sir John Franklin's expedition to Canadian shipwreck ID'd as Sir Franklin's long-lost Erebus Skip to ...
On their return journey, the Prince Albert expedition rendezvoused with HMS Assistance and HMS Intrepid near Beechey Island, who informed them that Franklin's expedition had made winter quarters nearby. [9] Snow went ashore to investigate and found scattered traces of their camp, including tent rings and naval rope. [8]
It protects the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two ships of the last expedition of Sir John Franklin, lost in the 1840s during their search for the Northwest Passage and then re-discovered in 2014 and 2016. The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada and the local Inuit. Public access to the site is not permitted.
Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism.