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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 ...
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.
The images, taken before Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic in 1845, are now among the most expensive daguerreotypes ever sold at auction.
Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism.
British expedition to explore the Gambia River and the hinterland of Africa's west coast. Bass expedition: George Bass: 1803 Pacific Ocean British expedition to Tahiti, and possibly to the Spanish colony of Chile, before returning to the Sydney colony. Franklin's lost expedition: John Franklin: 1845 Victoria Strait (Canadian Arctic)
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The bay was one of a series of landmarks along the waters explored by John Franklin during his lost expedition between 1845 and 1848. [3] The bay has the same name as HMS Terror, one of the two ships of the expedition. [4] The ships entered Baffin Bay in 1845 on their quest to find a Northwest Passage, and were abandoned sometime in 1848.
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 ...