It remains one of the biggest mysteries in Arctic exploration.
We take a closer look at the Beechey Island permafrost burials. What can they tell us about the disastrous Franklin expedition?
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Students learn how to extract information from images and text in order to analyze for understanding. The subject of analysis is on the history of exploration in the Northwest Passage, particularly the doomed Franklin Expedition. Then they continue their analysis with a focus on the various perspectives surrounding the region's future due to the melting of Arctic sea ice. This is a two hour lesson that includes: Lesson plan Student Google Slide worksheets Student worksheets via pdf Teacher Google Slide presentation Answer sheets You can provide students with either printed worksheets OR give them access to a Google Slideshow to complete the work.
“In the Footsteps of Franklin,” the theme of this writer's two-week expedition cruise, is about to take on added meaning. Read an intriguing summary of a voyage retracing the Franklin Expedition of 1845.
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In my last posting, I gave some general background on the Daguerreotypes made of Franklin and his officers just before their sailing in May of 1845. There, I hinted that there was something further to be learned. With thanks to my esteemed friend Dr Huw Lewis-Jones of the Scott Polar Research Institute, who first observed this phenomenon, I pass along a vision recovered from the reflective bill of Lieutenant Graham Gore's cap (see detail, inset). The image seems clearly that of a ship, indicating that Gore's portrait was taken at dockside. Yet which ship is it? It seems to me to be a view of the stern of some vessel, but without any sails or rigging clearly visible. There seem to be masts, but one of these appears bent, and connected with another protrusion. Could one of these be the smokestack of a ship's engine, and a plume of smoke the source of this connection? If so, the vessel would seem to be either "Erebus" or "Terror." And yet tellingly, a line seems to extend from the ship's stern (if so it is), as though it were towing another vessel. If that's the case, the ship could be the screw steam sloop HMS "Rattler," for it towed both "Erebus" and "Terror" as far as Cape Wrath off Scotland. Unlike the discovery ships, which would have hoarded their coal for later, the Rattler would have been under full steam for the journey, and was far more likely to be exuding smoke during the photographic session. Rattler was the first screw-propeller driven warship in the world, and had famously won a contest with the side-wheel steamer Alecto, proving her pre-eminence by dragging the Alecto backwards at a speed of 2 knots in March of 1845. The propellor of the Rattler is on display in Portsmouth to this day. But what else can we learn from these Dauguerreotypes? My acquaintance Bill Schultz, a collector of and expert on early photography, prepared a lengthy essay on them for the 2005 edition of the Daguerreian Annual. Schultz specializes in military and naval images, and his commentary describes each officer's uniform in detail. For example, Franklin is wearing "a Cocked Hat or Chapeau, bound with black silk, which would have four loops of gold bullion with two center loops twisted." Gore, above, "wears the undress uniform of a Lieutenant according to the uniform regulation of 1843; his epaulettes have shorter braid (than those of a commander or captain) and would have been without any insignia on the strap or in the crescent." Is there more? Clearly, the photographer sent by Beard's firm chose at least two different settings, or allowed the officers to do so. Most of the subjects -- Franklin himself, Crozier, Fitzjames, Gore, Fairholme, Couch, Des Voeux, Sargent, Reid, Collins, Stanley, Goodsir, and Osmer, posed before a cloth backdrop; judging by Gore and Fairholme, this studio was set up dockside. The backdrop varies somewhat; in Goodsir's case, it seems draped or curtained, with light passing on either side, while with the others, it appears flat and opaque. Only Le Vesconte seems to have chosen to be photographed aboard ship; he stands with the wheel visible behind him, and a coil of rope hanging from the mast. In his hand he holds a book with a paper label on its cover, idnetified by Schultz as the ship's log. Ah, what any of us would give to have that book once more in our hands! There is surely still more to be learned from these images; the Daguerreotype process produces plates with an incredible level of detail, as the grain size was as little as that of a single silver halide crystal. The originals, properly copied, could be blown up by a factor of hundreds, and yield surprising results. Reproduced in the pages of the Illustrated London News and Gleason's Pictorial, endlessly peered at in hopes of some new insight, these memorial versions of the Franklin expedition's officers have a haunting quality -- for they were the first, as well as the last, we would ever have of these bold and tragic figures.
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In 1845, two ships left England to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Then they vanished without a trace.
Doomed 1845 ship believed to have been lost in the Arctic was found by Canada finally, after over 170 years of explorers’ searches. The doomed 1845 ship found by Canada is one of two British explorer...
In the 1840s, two British crews vanished while seeking a passage through the ice at the top of the world. Paul Watson became "obsessed with the mystery" and tells the story in his new book Ice Ghosts.
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Examine the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845, where two ships and their crews vanished while searching for the Northwest Passage. Discuss recent discoveries and ongoing mysteries.
Researchers argue that lead exposure occurred prior to the start of the voyage, not during the stranded crew's battle for survival
The fate of Capt. Sir John Franklin and crew has been a mystery for more than 160 years, but now Canadian archaeologists believe they've found one of the expedition's two main vessels.
Brian Spenceley recalls the expedition when he first saw his great-great uncle
Archeologists involved in the hunt for the wreckage of the Franklin Expedition in Canada's Arctic have discovered human remains they believe are from a member of the doomed crew.
167 years after the doomed Franklin Arctic expedition, a new expedition to find the lost Royal Navy ships has found the first known artifact
Sir John Franklin set out to traverse the Northwest Passage but became lost when the icepack closed around his ships. But has he been found?
The HMS Terror went missing in 1848 as the Royal Navy sought to chart an unnavigated portion of the Northwest Passage. All 129 crew members perished.
A new study by University of Glasgow researchers may give further insight to the deaths of all 129 crew of the ill-fated "Franklin Expedition" of 1845 which was lost in the Canadian Arctic as it attempted to navigate the final link in the fabled Northwest Passage in HMS Erebus and Terror.
A new study suggests that some of the death's of the crew on the 1845 Franklin expedition in the Arctic may have been due to tuberculosis resulting in Addison's disease, which causes dehydration.
Le navire, un trois-mâts, a disparu dans les eaux glaciales de l’Arctique canadien il y a 203 ans…
The body of John Torrington stunned the archeologists who exhumed it in 1984 while searching for the cause of the legendary Franklin's failure. Perfectly preserved, it stared back at them, literally!
The exhumation of a man who died on an Arctic expedition allowed scientists to re-examine the body using modern forensics, revealing a surprise.
Один из двух британских кораблей экспедиции Франклина, пропавших в Арктике более 160 лет назад, найден, сообщил премьер Канады.
The story of Sir John Franklin’s fateful expedition is a fascinating one. Read on to find out what we learned!
This plushie will be made once the order is placed. Choose from Francis Crozier, James Fitzjames, Sir John Franklin, Harry Goodsir or Charles Des Voeux. The plushies are designed and hand stitched by me. Each piece is carefully hand cut from felt. The plushie is approximately five inches from head to toe and is stuffed with cotton. This is not a toy and is not suitable for children under the age of 14. Please note: Since each plushie is lovingly and carefully made by hand, the plushie as well as the felt shades may differ slightly from those shown in the photo.
