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2. Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site ...

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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. [1]

4. Coppermine expedition - Wikipedia

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   Franklin's orders were somewhat general in nature. He was to travel overland to Great Slave Lake, and from there go to the coast by way of the Coppermine River.On reaching the coast he was advised to head east towards Repulse Bay and William Edward Parry's (hopefully victorious) ships, but if it seemed better he was also given the option of going west to map the coastline between the ...

5. Canadian shipwreck ID'd as Sir Franklin's long-lost Erebus - AOL

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   One of two doomed ships lost long ago trying to discover the mysterious Northwest Passage has been found. In September, Canadian officials announced they'd found a shipwreck they believed belonged ...

6. ‘It went horribly wrong’: DNA analysis sheds light on lost ...

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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 ...

7. MS Ocean Endeavour - Wikipedia

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   On 5 September 2019, passengers of Adventure Canada on Ocean Endeavour were the first members of the public to visit the site of the wreck of HMS Erebus, one of the two ships of the ill-fated Franklin expedition which aimed to traverse the North-West Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. [12]