The 1845 Franklin Expedition may be the greatest disaster in the history of British Polar exploration. None of Sir John Franklin's original 129-strong crew survived, shrouding their grizzly last days ...
Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th century Arctic expedition, offering insight into its lost crew’s tragic and grisly ...
The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of Captain James Fitzjames. Three years later, after their ships were trapped in ...
The remains of one of the men on who died during the doomed Franklin Expedition has finally been identified. Commander James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus has become only the second body identified, ...
When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the Arctic, he and his crew didn’t know the harrowing fate ahead of them. Their ...
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DNA Reveals Identity of Officer on the Lost Franklin Expedition—and His Remains Show Signs of Cannibalism
In 2021, a team extracted DNA from a skull and identified John Gregory, an engineer aboard the HMS Erebus. Now, the scientists have used DNA to identify a second crewmember: James Fitzjames, a captain ...
The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin's doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...
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