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Franklin expedition

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Book recovered from Franklin ship could show whether other written items are salvageable: historian

CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 15:26 — Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2023 at 15:27
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A leather-bound folio found in one of Capt. John Franklin’s doomed ships might just show how recoverable other documents might be

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Royal Canadian Navy ship completes Northwest Passage journey for first time since 1954

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Friday, October 1, 2021 at 12:02
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Vessel travelled same route as the ill-fated Franklin expedition 175 years ago For the first time since 1954, a Royal

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DNA confirmed identity of HMS Erebus engineer — and raises more questions in Franklin Expedition mystery in Arctic Canada

Janet Davison, CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 23, 2021 at 11:58
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Pandemic forces another delay in exploration of shipwrecks but other work continues Jonathan Gregory didn’t think too much about the

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

HMS Terror’s ‘incredible’ condition may offer new clues to Franklin Expedition mystery

Janet Davison, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 10:11 — Last Updated: Friday, August 30, 2019 at 12:43
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The first systematic exploration of the interior of HMS Terror is offering Parks Canada underwater archeologists the tantalizing prospect that

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Archeologists dive back into Franklin mystery in Arctic Canada

Laura Busch, CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 16:34 — Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2019 at 10:46
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A Parks Canada research team is en route to the underwater wrecks of Sir John Franklin’s ships in an effort

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Parks Canada battles Arctic ice to explore crumbling Franklin expedition wreck

Dean Beeby, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:35 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at 15:39
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Parks Canada may be in a race against time to research the HMS Erebus as rough Arctic weather conditions badly

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Tragedies in hamlet in Arctic Canada sparking talk of a Franklin ‘curse’

Dean Beeby, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 14:39
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Some residents of an Arctic hamlet located near the Franklin shipwrecks have linked a spate of tragic deaths in the

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Blog – Franklin expedition: How a doomed Arctic voyage presaged transpolar flights

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 13:31 — Last Updated: Friday, December 21, 2018 at 15:57
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Last month, I flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on one of those sleek jets that fuse heaven and

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Canada General News Science Science (Canada) 

First Canadian and Inuit-owned artifacts from Franklin wreck revealed to public

Michael Hugall, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 27, 2018 at 16:10 — Last Updated: Friday, September 28, 2018 at 15:42
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9 artifacts jointly owned by Canada and the Inuit Heritage Trust were revealed to the world Tuesday. Nine artifacts from

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Interview – Hair samples from Franklin expedition member show high lead levels

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 16:49
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When Sir John Franklin left Britain with two ships and 129 sailors in 1845, it was to be an epic

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Arctic shipwreck confirmed as Franklin expedition’s missing HMS Terror

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at 16:00
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Canadian officials have confirmed that a shipwreck found in uncharted waters of a remote Arctic bay earlier this month is

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Arctic hamlet set to celebrate historic discovery of second Franklin expedition shipwreck

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 21:30 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 22:09
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Residents of Gjoa Haven, a tiny Inuit hamlet in the Canadian Arctic, and the crew of a research vessel that

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Sir John Franklin’s long-lost HMS Terror found: The Guardian

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2016 at 20:36
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HMS Terror, one of Sir John Franklin’s two ships lost in the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition, has been found in “in

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A sea-floor scan shows one of the two long-missing Franklin ships. The masts have been sheared off by ice over the many decades, but the vessel appears otherwise to be in relatively good condition. (Parks Canada /The Canadian Press)
Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Arctic shipwreck indentified by Canada as HMS Erebus

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 20:21 — Last Updated: Monday, October 6, 2014 at 18:56
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The long-lost shipwreck discovered last month in the Canadian Arctic has been identified as the HMS Erebus, the very ship

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A sea-floor scan shows one of the two long-missing Franklin ships. The image was unveiled by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper with much fanfare in 2014. (Canada parks/The Canadian Press)
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Found at last! Franklin ship lost for 166 years

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at 18:54 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 22:23
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The well-prepared ships left England in 1845 in search of the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic, to the Orient.

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