University of Waterloo researchers used DNA from skeletal remains to identify four sailors from the ill-fated Franklin ...
The identification of the remains also resolved a decades-long debate about the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration.
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Nearly 200 years later, DNA links four dead sailors to the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition
The breakthrough makes one of history’s most haunting exploration stories far more personal.
The 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition was an unprecedented disaster in the history of British polar exploration, with the loss of all 129 officers and crew and the discovery ships HMS Erebus ...
Crew members on the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror died after the two ships became trapped in Arctic ice ...
This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror. The find follows the 2014 ...
Researchers say they have identified four sailors who were among 129 who died during a fatal polar expedition in 1845, resolving a decades-long debate about the ...
The 1845 Franklin Northwest Passage expedition was an unprecedented disaster in the history of British polar exploration, with the loss of all 129 officers and crew ...
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