Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition

In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to “penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America.&; And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin&;s ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn&;t come until 2014, when a team commissioned by the Canadian government uncovered one of the lost ships: Erebus.

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