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Sir John Franklin KCH FRS FLS FRGS (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, in 1819 and 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1839 to 1843.
5 days ago · Franklin’s search for the Northwest Passage began on May 19, 1845, when he sailed from England with two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, carrying 128 officers and men. The vessels were last sighted by British whalers north of Baffin Island at the entrance to Lancaster Sound in late July. In 1847, when no word had been received, search parties were sent out.
Franklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration. All 129 crew members
John Franklin (born John Paul Salapatek; June 16, 1959) is an American actor, writer and former school teacher. He is best known for playing Isaac Chroner in Children of the Corn (1984), and Cousin Itt in The Addams Family (1991). Early life.
Mar 30, 2012 · More than six decades before Scott reached the South Pole, Sir John Franklin led an expedition into the Canadian Arctic that would turn into the greatest catastrophe in polar history. Attempting ...
Jan 3, 2020 · Sir John Franklin and his crew, illustrated for the London News, circa 1845. A Series of Clues to the Fate of the Franklin Expedition Rescue expeditions turned up tantalizing clues: A trio of ...
Jun 8, 2018 · Sir John Franklin. The English explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) is perhaps the most important figure in the search for the Northwest Passage.. In the 40-year period after the Napoleonic Wars, the British Admiralty took up the challenge of finding the elusive Northwest Passage, along the northern coast of North America between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Feb 28, 2006 · It was the largest voyage of exploration to the Arctic that the British Empire had ever launched. Led by seasoned naval captain Sir John Franklin, 128 men set off from London in May of 1845 to ...
Print of “The Arctic Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin” (Credit The Mariners’ Museum Collection – catalog# 1936.0716.000001 North-West Searching Expedition for Sir John Franklin, Sir John Ross’ Yacht “Felix” At Anchor in Loch Ryan (Credit: The Mariners’ Museum – Catalog# 2017.0009.000001)
Sir John Franklin, naval officer, Arctic explorer (born 16 April 1786 in Spilsby, England; died 11 June 1847 aboard HMS Erebus near King William Island, Nunavut).Franklin’s name is synonymous with Arctic exploration and the Northwest Passage.A respected naval officer and colonial governor, he was involved in several high-profile expeditions to the Canadian Arctic that mapped large stretches ...
