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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...
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    The British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition, also known as Franklin's lost expedition, was an attempt by the British Royal Navy to discover and chart...
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    Franklin's lost expedition 1849: Henry Kellett discovers Herald Island searching for Franklin's lost expedition 1850–1854: McClure Arctic expedition led...
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    lost looking for Franklin than in the expedition itself. Ballads such as "Lady Franklin's Lament", commemorating Lady Franklin's search for her lost husband...
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  • William Braine (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    was assigned to HMS Erebus during Franklin's Lost Expedition. Braine was a part of Sir John Franklin's final expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The...
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  • This is a list of lost expeditions. Williams, Glyn. Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage. London, England: Penguin UK, 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-193258-3...
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    Francis Crozier (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    more than a hundred descendants of Crozier and other officers of Franklin's lost expedition and those who searched for it, along with the chairman of Banbridge...
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    portrayed in a fictionalised version of his 1848 search for Franklin's lost expedition, as well as in the 2007 Dan Simmons novel on which the series...
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    Alexander McDonald (surgeon) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Scottish physician who served as assistant surgeon of HMS Terror on Franklin's lost expedition. Alexander McDonald was born on 15 September 1817 in Laurencekirk...
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    Inuit sources on the fate of Franklin's lost expedition, the ill-fated Royal Navy undertaking commanded by Sir John Franklin in 1845 attempting to be the...
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    HMS Terror (1813) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    George Back's Arctic expedition of 1836–1837, the successful Ross expedition to the Antarctic of 1839 to 1843, and Sir John Franklin's ill-fated attempt...
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    Harry Goodsir (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    2007 novel The Terror by Dan Simmons, a fictionalized account of Franklin's lost expedition, as well as the 2018 television adaptation, where he is portrayed...
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  • The Terror (novel) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. In the novel, while Franklin and...
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    James Fitzjames (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    of an expedition to the Northwest Passage, but was instead named as captain of HMS Erebus under Sir John Franklin. Franklin's lost expedition became...
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  • disappearance of the 1719 expedition commanded by Capt. James Knight, which, like Franklin's, ended disastrously, with both ships lost and no survivors, on...
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    Graham Gore (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-471-37790-0. Owen, Roderick (1978). The fate of Franklin. London:...
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    John Torrington (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    joined the Franklin expedition and was assigned to HMS Terror as leading stoker. Torrington was a part of Sir John Franklin's final expedition to find the...
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    exploration. Resolute became trapped in the ice searching for Franklin's lost expedition and was abandoned in 1854. Recovered by an American whaler, she...
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    Man Proposes, God Disposes (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    artist Sir Edwin Landseer. The work was inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition which disappeared in the Arctic after 1845. The painting is in...
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    "Lady Franklin's Lament" (also known as "Lord Franklin" and "The Sailor's Dream") is a traditional folk ballad indexed by George Malcolm Laws (Laws K09)...
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  • John Hartnell (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    1846) was an English seaman who took part in Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition and was one of its first casualties, dying of suspected...
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    Australia. After John Franklin's disappearance in search of the Northwest Passage, she sponsored or otherwise supported several expeditions to determine his...
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    King William Island (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Two of Franklin's men were buried at Hall Point on the island's south coast. The ships were believed lost forever, as many subsequent expeditions were unable...
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    The McClintock Arctic expedition of 1857 was a British effort to locate the last remains of Franklin's lost expedition. Led by Francis Leopold McClintock...
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    Charles Frederick Des Voeux (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Royal Navy. He served as mate aboard HMS Erebus during the 1845 Franklin Expedition which sought to chart the Canadian Arctic, including the Northwest...
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  • Barretto Junior (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    for both troops and convicts. She is best known for supplying Franklin's lost expedition. Barretto Junior was launched in June 1818 by Michael Smith at...
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  • the accessible areas along Franklin's proposed route near the Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers. No contact with Franklin's party was achieved and Rae later...
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    steam engines and used for Franklin's lost expedition of 1845–1848, in which both ships (and all crew) would ultimately be lost; their ship-wrecks have now...
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    failure of Sir James Clark Ross's attempt to locate Franklin's lost expedition, Austin led an expedition in 1850 that also attempted to find the missing explorers...
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    Henry Le Vesconte (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    "Following in Franklin's footsteps". New Scientist. 105 (1422): 37. Cyriax, Richard (1939). Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition; a Chapter in the...
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