About 30 expeditions searched for Franklin by land and sea, and only four found any evidence. And so, we ended up learning more about the Arctic from the search parties looking for Franklin, than he would explore himself.įranklin’s disappearance would set in motion one of the most massive search efforts in history. Interestingly though, the search parties looking for the missing expedition would be pressed to explore the blank spots on the Arctic maps for clues into the whereabouts of the sailors. (We have now learned most of what happened to the sailors in a tragic push for the mainland. Led by a retired hero of the Napoleonic Wars, that had risen from the merchant class to earn a knighthood after two earlier Arctic journeys. Two ships, the Erebus and the Terror would depart on an expedition of herculean scale, to once and for all, find the route through the icy labyrinth of the Northwest Passage. One of the most enduring mysteries of the Age of Discovery, when sailors and explorers from across Europe went forth in search of new lands to discover or blank spaces on the map to chart, is the story of Sir John Franklin’s fateful expedition.
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