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The Lost Remains Of A Captain Who Died During The Franklin Expedition Were Recovered In The Canadian Arctic, And Bone Analysis Showed Signs Of Cannibalism
The expedition was led by Sir John Franklin, an experienced explorer ... that their bodies were butchered and eaten after their deaths. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like ...
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In a 1st, DNA analysis reveals identity of captain cannibalized during ill-fated Franklin expedition
The note documented the death of several crew members ... This is just the second member of the Franklin expedition to have ...
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Members of the Greely Expedition
After his death, the remaining survivors ... Clay James Lockwood became second in command of the expedition shortly after arriving at Lady Franklin Bay. He participated in several exploratory ...
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DNA Analysis Throws New Light on the 1845 Franklin Arctic Expedition
None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...
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Fascinated by the Arctic and the Franklin expedition? You’re not alone: explorers are still learning about its mysterious disappearance
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger (Greystone, 1987). It advances the lead poisoning theory after three bodies were exhumed. Unravelling the Franklin ...
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Biography: Adolphus Greely
In 1881, Greely volunteered to lead the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition team to the Arctic ... six surviving crewmembers were on the verge of death, having survived that long by eating moss, candle ...
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The Franklin Exploration
It reveals the story about one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history: the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition, an Arctic expedition that disappeared mysteriously more than 170 ...