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Franklin's lost expedition
Sir John Franklin's 129 men abandoned the iced-in Erebus and Terror off King William Island in April 1848 and all died; Inuit testimony recorded by John Rae in 1854 told of their fate.
1848 CE · 69.00, -98.50 · status: explained
The account
Inuit historians such as Louie Kamookak kept the oral record that led to finding Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016. Inuit accounts of cannibalism, rejected in Victorian Britain, were confirmed by cut marks on bones.
Connections in the atlas
- John Rae and the Inuit testimony
- Sammy Kogvik and the wreck of HMS Terror
- Charles Francis Hall's Inuit interviews