More information: Douglas R. Stenton et al, Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage ...
a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago. Fitzjames ...
None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...
In 1845, maverick Royal Navy captain Sir John Franklin sailed off the map of the known world with 128 men, to chart the elusive Northwest Passage. No trace of them was ever seen again. Until now.