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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
In 1845, a lavishly equipped two-ship expedition led by Sir John Franklin sailed to the Canadian Arctic to chart the last unknown swaths of the Northwest Passage. Confidence was high, as they estimated there was less than 500 km (310 mi) remaining of unexplored Arctic mainland coast.
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The images, taken before Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic in 1845, are now among the most expensive daguerreotypes ever sold at auction.
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