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Vor 5 Tagen · Who was John Franklin? What was the root cause of the catastrophe that befell his 1845 expedition? I wanted to remind people of Franklin’s centrality — that the decades-long search for him and his two lost ships established Canada’s claim to the archipelago north of continental North America. But for the Franklin search, and the mapping it entailed, all that territory — what we know as ...
Vor 5 Tagen · From 1824 to 1827 he was surgeon and naturalist and second in command of Franklin’s second overland expedition, in the course of which Richardson surveyed some 900 miles (1,449 km) of Canadian Arctic coast between the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers. He was knighted in 1846.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vor 5 Tagen · The Atholl class of corvettes were built two decades before Franklin’s Northwest Passage Expedition sailed, at the same time as HMS Erebus, Franklin’s lead ship. Four members of the class, HMS Rattlesnake , Herald, Talbot, and North Star participated in search efforts for the missing crews.
Vor einem Tag · The reality of how difficult the expedition was, however, was unprecedented. There were an estimated 130 crew members between both ships, all being led by Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. Both ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Skipping ahead to the 1980s, the Franklin Expedition, which had been a subject of interest for some time in the UK and Canada, became more widely known when forensic anthropologist Owen Beattie excavated the Franklin-era Beechey Island graves of John Hartnell, John Torrington, and William Braine and found their bodies incredibly well ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Nansen's main task in the following weeks was writing his account of the expedition, but he found time late in June to visit London, where he met the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII), and addressed a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS).
Vor 2 Tagen · In response to a signal gun fired from the fort, British ensigns were soon seen fluttering from the main masts. Time had run out for the Americans. Next week, we will discuss the American disaster in Penobscot Bay. Until then, may your motto be “Ducit Amor Patriae,” love of country leads me. The Penobscot Expedition which started so well ...
