Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
English: Map of the west coast of King William Island depicting confirmed remains of Franklin's Lost Expedition (Note that the location where the ships were abandoned and the site of Victory Point is to a certain extent speculative, see Cyriax 1952.
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 ...
Map showing Franklin's descent of the Coppermine and retreat across the Barren Grounds. The Coppermine expedition of 1819–1822 was a British overland undertaking to survey and chart the area from Hudson Bay to the north coast of North America, eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River.
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. [1]
This map contains public domain geo data from Natural Earth (Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.) This map is inspired by File:Franklin's-Lost-Expedition.png and builds upon it. Especially the route around Cornwallis Island is corrected to be happening before the wintering on Beechey Island and the position of the last ...
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.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Around 1850 some survivors of Franklin's lost expedition probably reached the island. In 1855 James Anderson and James Stewart of the Hudson's Bay Company descended Back River, crossed to the island and found Franklin relics. The island is not to be confused with the Island of Montreal in southwest Quebec, on which the city of Montreal is located.