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New DNA Analysis Identifies More Members of the Ill-Fated Franklin Expedition
Researchers matched DNA from descendants and remains to identify four Franklin Expedition sailors, and the database now covers 35 of 105 crew members.
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HMS Terror and HMS Erebus trapped in the ice. Illustration of "The Frozen Zone and its Explorers" A. Hyde, A.C. Baldwin, W.L. Gage (1874) In the spring of 1845 it departed from England which, possibly, is the most tragic and unfortunate maritime expedition of all time. The Admiralty had arranged two of the best ships of the time, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, with the aim of trying to cross once and for all the Northwest Pass and complete t…
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