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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 ...
1930: Bratvaag Expedition, led by Gunnar Horn to Franz Josef Land, found long lost remains of Salomon August Andrée's expedition; 1930–1931: British Arctic Air Route Expedition was an expedition, led by Gino Watkins, that aimed to draw improved maps and charts of poorly surveyed sections of Greenland's coastline
British expedition to become the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Rusanov expedition: Vladimir Rusanov: 1913 Kara Sea (Arctic) Russian naval expedition to the Arctic to find the Northern Sea Route. Fawcett expedition: Percy Fawcett: 1925 Dead Horse Camp (Brazil) British archaeological expedition to the Amazon to locate the "Lost City ...
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 ...
Karluk was built in 1884, at Matthew Turner's shipyard, [1] [2] Benicia, California, as a tender for the Alaska salmon fishery industry (karluk is the Alutiiq word for "fish"). "). She was 129 ft (39 m) in length with a beam of 23 ft (7.0 m), and 321 gross register tonnage, 247 net register tonnage powered by sail and a 150 hp auxiliary coal-fired compound steam en
USS Jeannette was a naval exploration vessel which, commanded by George W. De Long, undertook the Jeannette expedition of 1879–1881 to the Arctic.After being trapped in the ice and drifting for almost two years, the ship and her crew of 33 were released from the ice, then trapped again, crushed and sunk some 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi) north of the Siberian coast.
Shipwreck experts found Ernest Shackleton’s last vessel on the ocean floor 62 years after its sinking. The polar explorer died aboard the vessel over a century ago.
An Arctic goose fell a few thousand miles short of its destination and wound up in a Southern California park, wildlife rescuers reported. A tundra bean goose was rescued Nov. 22 from Magic ...