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Franklin'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 ...
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John Hartnell was born in Gillingham, Kent to a family of shipbuilders. [2] His parents were Thomas and Sarah (maiden name: Friar, born 1796) Hartnell who were married at Frindsbury, in the Medway Towns area of Kent, on 9 October 1815, and with whom he was living in Gillingham at the time of the census of 1841. [3]
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British expedition to explore the Gambia River and the hinterland of Africa's west coast. Bass expedition: George Bass: 1803 Pacific Ocean British expedition to Tahiti, and possibly to the Spanish colony of Chile, before returning to the Sydney colony. Franklin's lost expedition: John Franklin: 1845 Victoria Strait (Canadian Arctic)
Melville Island, Canada. The McClintock Arctic expedition of 1857 was a British effort to locate the last remains of Franklin's lost expedition.Led by Francis Leopold McClintock, RN aboard the steam yacht Fox, the expedition spent two years in the region and ultimately returned with the only written message recovered from the doomed expedition.
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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.