Fitzjames and Franklin’s second-in-command, Captain Francis Crozier, signed the dispatch. Human remains from the expedition ...
when a note was discovered in a cairn on King William Island. Dated April 25, 1848, and co-signed by Fitzjames, the document ...
Gregory was an officer on British explorer Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition to chart the ... Gregory's remains were recovered from King William Island, Nunavut in 2013.
The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin ... expedition of 1845-1848 was discovered in 1859. It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King William Island ...
The two ships were part of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition to chart the ... The two ships were eventually discovered south of King William Island, near where the ships and their crews had ...