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Michael Palin's 2018 book, Erebus, The Story of a Ship, was described by The Guardian newspaper as 'lively and diligent.' [172] He also produced a one man show based on his book. [173] A children's novel, Chasing Ghosts – An Arctic Adventure by Nicola Pierce featuring the expedition was published in 2020.
∗ Written with the first "s" as an "ſ" in Victorian manner i.e.: "Cloẛsan"¤ First name read as "David" in Cyriax crewlist † This name appears twice in the original list
On 7 September 2014, the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 m (36 ft) of water. [2]
The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. [1] It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus and HMS ...
John Gregory (6 September 1806—c. May 1848) was an English railway and naval engineer. He served as engineer aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition, which sought to explore uncharted parts of what is now Nunavut, including the Northwest Passage, and make scientific observations.
Ross, a captain of the Royal Navy, commanded HMS Erebus.Its sister ship, HMS Terror, was commanded by Ross' close friend, Captain Francis Crozier. [4]The botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, then aged 23 and the youngest person on the expedition, was assistant-surgeon to Robert McCormick, and responsible for collecting zoological and geological specimens.
Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as ...
He has been featured in various documentaries about Franklin, and is a major subject in two books on the search. In 2015, Woodman was a recipient of the Erebus Medal, struck by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to recognize all participants in the discovery of HMS Erebus, including those in the field and those who worked behind the scenes.
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