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The most meaningful outcome of the Franklin expedition was the mapping of several thousand miles of hitherto unsurveyed coastline by expeditions searching for Franklin's lost ships and crew. As Richard Cyriax noted, "the loss of the expedition probably added much more [geographical] knowledge than its successful return would have done". [156]
Sir John Franklin: Captain: Lincolnshire: 59 James Fitzjames: Commander: London: 31 Graham Gore: First Lieutenant (Commander) Plymouth: 35 Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte: Second Lieutenant Devon: 31 James Walter Fairholme: Third Lieutenant Perth, Scotland: 24 James Reid: Ice-Master: Aberdeen: 45 Robert Orme Sargent: First Mate: 24 Charles ...
Member of Franklin's lost expedition; identification of remains via DNA analysis in 2021 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 ...
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)
The expedition reported this information on its return to Britain, making it the first to bring any news about the Franklin expedition since 1845. [2] [7] Of the reaction, historian Ian Stone writes: The reception accorded Forsyth was all that he could have desired, although the Franklin ménage was furious at his early return.
He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel ...
Charles Francis Hall (c. 1821 – November 8, 1871) was an American Arctic explorer, best known for his collection of Inuit testimony regarding the 1845 Franklin Expedition and the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death while leading the American-sponsored Polaris expedition in an attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole.
Passage is a 2008 documentary film partly based on the book Fatal Passage about Sir John Franklin's lost expedition through the Northwest Passage. [1] The film explores the fate of the doomed mission, including John Rae's efforts to uncover the truth, and Lady Franklin's campaign to defend her late husband's reputation.