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Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States , he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago , in 1819 and 1825 , and served as Lieutenant-Governor ...
May 24, 2024 · Sir John Franklin, English rear admiral and explorer who led an ill-fated expedition (1845) in search of the Northwest Passage, a Canadian Arctic waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. His ships the Terror and the Erebus were discovered by Canadian expeditions in the 21st century.
Jun 8, 2018 · Franklin, Sir John (1786–1847). After a distinguished naval career in the wars against Napoleon, Franklin became the most famous British Arctic explorer of his day. Then, like Livingstone, at the end of his life, he became even more of a national figure by disappearing into the unknown.
Franklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. All 129 crew members.
Jan 3, 2020 · Updated: September 12, 2023 | Original: January 3, 2020. copy page link. Print Page. DeAgostini/Getty Images. On May 19, 1845, the HMS Erebus with its sister ship HMS Terror sailed out of the River...
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...
Mar 30, 2012 · The last words of Franklin and his men, written on the wind, have vanished forever. Only the mystery remains. More than six decades before Scott reached the South Pole, Sir John Franklin led...
