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Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
Jun 7, 2024 · Sir John Franklin, English rear admiral and explorer who led an ill-fated expedition (1845) in search of the Northwest Passage, a Canadian Arctic waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. His ships the Terror and the Erebus were discovered by Canadian expeditions in the 21st century.
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Franklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration.
Jan 3, 2020 · Learn about the 1845 mission to find the Northwest Passage and the fate of its crew. Explore the clues from notes, graves and artifacts, and the recent discoveries of the wrecks of Erebus and Terror.
May 6, 2021 · In 1845, Sir John Franklin, an officer in the British Royal Navy, took two ships and 129 men towards the Northwest Territories in an attempt to map the Northwest Passage. If charted properly,...
Mar 30, 2012 · Learn about the mysterious fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew, who vanished in the Canadian Arctic while searching for the Northwest Passage in 1845. Discover the evidence of cannibalism, the Inuit testimony, and the search for the missing ships and diaries.
Jun 8, 2018 · Franklin, Sir John (1786–1847). After a distinguished naval career in the wars against Napoleon, Franklin became the most famous British Arctic explorer of his day. Then, like Livingstone, at the end of his life, he became even more of a national figure by disappearing into the unknown.
