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Sir John Franklin Map of the Arctic region highlighting the Northwest Passage, a maritime route shown with a red line connecting the Atlantic Ocean near Greenland to the Pacific Ocean via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, passing north of Canada and Alaska through the Bering Sea. Major islands and surrounding countries such as Russia, Norway, Denmark (Greenland), the United States (Alaska), and Canada are labeled. Sir John Franklin Hudson, Henry
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Franklin’s life and achievements are portrayed in Richard J. Cyriax, Sir John Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition (1939); Paul Nanton, Arctic Breakthrough: Franklin’s Expeditions, 1819–1847 (1970, reissued 1981); Leslie H. Neatby, The Search for Franklin (1970); and Roderic Owen, The Fate of Franklin (1978). More recent revisionist theories of the expedition’s fate are reported in Owen Beattie and John Geiger, Frozen in Time (1987), detailing the forensic study of the exhumed bodies of three expedition sailors; and David C. Woodman, Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony (1991).

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Article History

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Modified link of Web site: The Mariners' Museum and Park - The Ages of Exploration - Sir John Franklin. Sep 25, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jun 07, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 12, 2026
Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - John Franklin. Feb 10, 2026
Add new Web site: Royal Museums Greenwich - Sir John Franklin. Mar 13, 2025
Add new Web site: Portland State University - Odysseus of the Arctic: The Epic of John Franklin and the Search for his Lost Expedition (PDF). Jan 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Dartmouth College Library - Sir John Franklin. Aug 30, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC News - Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found. May 24, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 04, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - The Lost Franklin Expedition. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: The Mariners' Museum and Park - The Ages of Exploration - Sir John Franklin. Jul 13, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Sir John Franklin's last arctic expedition: a medical disaster. May 26, 2023
Link added. Apr 19, 2023
Add new Web site: Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Biography of Sir John Franklin. Feb 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Famous Explorers - John Franklin Biography and Facts. Aug 05, 2022
Cross-references added. Mar 27, 2018
Updated for the discovery of the HMS Terror. Sep 13, 2016
Updated for the identification of the Erebus. Oct 02, 2014
Updated for the finding of one of Franklin's ships. Sep 09, 2014
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of Sir John Franklin. Apr 08, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Biography of Sir John Franklin. Nov 12, 2008
Article revised and updated. Oct 22, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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