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The ill-fated expedition ended in disaster, with Franklin and all of his men perishing. Though the exact circumstances of ...

Sir John Franklin's expedition to find a Northwest Passage ... for all intents and purposes, "lost" to the wider world until now, says Emily Bierman, global head of photographs at Sotheby's ...

It reveals the story about one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history: the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition, an Arctic expedition that disappeared mysteriously more than 170 ...

The two ships were part of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to chart the ... both ships seemed to have been lost to time and ice. A team of Canadian divers and archaeologists had been trying ...

He was involved in the search for the lost Franklin Expedition and was noteworthy for his adoption of native practices during his many journeys. It was his connection with Indigenous people that ...

During the expedition he lost men to starvation, and the survivors were forced to eat lichen. They even attempted to eat their own leather boots, gaining Franklin the nickname of the man who ate ...