Crewmember of 150-year-old lost expedition identified using …
WEB3 hours ago · Ontario university researchers say they used DNA samples to identify a second crew member from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 Northwest Passage expedition.
DNA used to identify remains of Franklin expedition sailor, find ...
WEB18 hours ago · James Fitzjame, only the second member to be identified by DNA, captained one of the expedition's two ships and served as second-in-command after Franklin's death. A exhibit on the Franklin ...
DNA test helps identify sailor from doomed Arctic expedition - BBC
WEBThe ill-fated expedition has inspired art, books and TV series with fictionalised depictions of their struggle for survival. In 1845, Sir John Franklin, an officer in the British Royal Navy, took ...
Scientists use DNA to identify bones, find descendants of Franklin ...
WEB1 day ago · Scientists have managed to identify bones belonging to a member of the Franklin expedition, a 19th-century voyage of exploration and discovery that ended in disaster, starvation and death.
Scientists use DNA to identify bones and find descendants of Franklin …
WEB1 day ago · The note, co-signed by Fitzjames, reads in part: “Sir John Franklin died on the 11th of June 1847 and the total loss by deaths in the Expedition has been to this date nine officers and 15 men …
Artifacts from Franklin’s lost expedition found in shipwrecks off ...
WEBJan 25, 2024 · Underwater archaeologists found a treasure trove of Franklin expedition artifacts that are now jointly owned by Parks Canada and the local Indigenous Nattilik Heritage Society.
Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia
WEBFranklin'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 ...
Divers involved in Franklin expedition say the 2023 season …
WEBJan 29, 2024 · Archaeologists had a highly productive season of excavation on the Erebus, one of Sir John Franklin's two ships that set out from England in 1845.
Descendant's DNA Helps Identify Remains of Doomed Franklin Expedition ...
WEBMay 7, 2021 · Some 175 years after the Franklin Expedition’s disappearance, researchers have made the first DNA identification of one of the Arctic quest’s crewmembers.
How the Discovery of Two Lost Ships Solved an Arctic Mystery
WEBApr 15, 2017 · In 1848, the Franklin expedition’s two ships, H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror, disappeared with all their crew while searching for the Northwest Passage. Their fate is one of the enduring...
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