from girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 May 08:10
https://lemmy.ca/post/64485660
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo say they have definitively identified the remains of four sailors belonging to the doomed Franklin Expedition — and settled a debate more than a century in the making.
One late night in May of 1859, the British Navy explorer Francis Leopold McClintock stumbled across a bleached skeleton on Gladman Point, roughly 75 kilometers west of today’s Nunavut hamlet of Gjoa Haven.
Nestled among the bones were a collection of papers: some poems, letters, and a seaman’s certificate for Harry Peglar, a petty officer aboard the doomed HMS Terror.
A decade earlier, the Terror had been, together with the HMS Erebus, part of an ill-fated expedition that would go down in history as one of the great tragedies of Arctic exploration.
In the end, all 129 crew members died.
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