Franklin's lost expedition
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title:
Franklin's lost expedition
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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 a better understanding could aid navigation. The expedition met with disaster after both ships and their crews, a total of 129 officers and men, became ic
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British expedition of Arctic exploration
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition
date created:
2008-02-14T00:12:52Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T19:10:47Z
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