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The Franklin's Expedition
The Franklin's Expedition
Written By Mister Gu on Thursday, September 15, 2011 | 3:41 PM
Sir John Franklin set off in charge of a British Navy expedition in 1845 to chart the North American Arctic and the route of the fabled Northwest Passage. In July of that year the two ships of the expedition were seen by whalers in Baffin Bay, at the gateway to the Northwest Passage. After that they were never seen by Europeans again. In the years that followed, the fate of Franklin’s