Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...

2020年1月3日 · In 1845, two ships left England to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Then they vanished without a trace.

Franklin expedition, British expedition (1845–48), led by Sir John Franklin, to find the Northwest Passage through Canada and to record magnetic information as a possible aid to navigation. The expedition ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of polar exploration.

2020年9月3日 · Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic in 1845 saw both the H.M.S. Terror and the H.M.S. Erebus meet a tragic end while in search of the Northwest Passage. Of the 134 men who embarked on the journey, only five would survive.

2024年5月26日 · In the 1840s, the Arctic captured the imagination of the British Empire. The promise of a shortcut to Asia via the Northwest Passage—a legendary sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the icy labyrinth of Canada‘s Arctic archipelago—was an irresistible call for maritime powers.

2018年8月28日 · In September 1854, a Scottish explorer named John Rae published a harrowing account of the Franklin Expedition’s “melancholy and dreadful” end. His report, based largely on first-hand testimony...

Franklin’s expedition set sail from Greenhithe, Kent, on the morning of 9 May 1845. The ships first traveled to Stromness, Orkney Islands, in northern Scotland, and then to Greenland with the help of HMS Rattler and the transport ship Baretto Junior.

2019年8月8日 · In May 1845 a celebrated British explorer and naval officer, Sir John Franklin, took up the quest to find a route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Arctic waters.

Popular hero Sir John Franklin leads an expedition to find the fabled North West Passage route from Europe to the Orient. The chances of success are greater than they have ever been. Letters arrive home in England brought by a supply ship that accompanied the two expedition ships to Greenland before returning.

2020年8月24日 · Under Sir John Franklin, the expedition was expected to locate and to travel through the long-sought Northwest Passage across the top of North America and to emerge into the Pacific Ocean trailing clouds of glory.

The Franklin Expedition, led by Sir John Franklin in 1845, was a British voyage of Arctic exploration that aimed to navigate the last unnavigated section of the Northwest Passage. The expedition consisted of two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and a crew of 129 men.

2021年3月27日 · On May 19, 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin left Greenhithe in England with 129 officers and men on two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to cross the last un-navigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic.

2018年2月22日 · The Northwest Passage is a famed sea route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through a group of sparsely populated Canadian islands known as the Arctic Archipelago.

By discovering a channel of communication between known points in Barrow Strait and on the north coast, Franklin’s men had effectively discovered the Northwest Passage. Much of the early mapping of the northern coasts of Canada was achieved by the expeditions sent in …

2022年2月8日 · Despite centuries of exploration and repeated failures to find a maritime route across the Americas, the belief persisted that the Arctic held the passage, known as the fabled Northwest Passage. With the alleged route’s location being narrowed down in 1845 two ships ( the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror ) were sent out in search of it, led by ...

6 天之前 · The Franklin Expedition Feb 03, 2025 | 40m 32s | | CC The search for the illusive Northwest Passage leads to a historic expedition that sets sail into a labyrinth of ice and is never heard from again.

2021年4月12日 · The mystery of the Franklin expedition is one of the most pervasive stories in naval history. Commissioned by the British Royal Navy in the 1840s to find the fabled Northwest Passage, the crew and officers disappeared in what is now known as the Canadian Arctic – and were never heard from again.

Northwest Passage routes Envisat ASAR mosaic of the Arctic Ocean (September 2007), showing the most direct route of the Northwest Passage closed (yellow line) and the Northeast Passage partially opened (blue line). The dark grey colour represents the ice-free areas, while green represents areas with sea ice.. The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the …

2023年3月24日 · The European quest for a passage by water across North America long pre-dates the nineteenth century, but it was to be then that it took on the urgency of national achievement, and it was to be one man – Sir John Franklin (1786–1847) – whose career came to symbolize the entire era.

2021年3月15日 · The Lost Expedition of Sir John Franklin, and their noble quest to find the Northwest Passage, happened back in 1845, over 170 years ago, and yet, in the 21st century, one particularly poignant reminder of the expedition’s great peril remains with us still.

2023年7月25日 · In 1847, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 128 men disappeared while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage. A National Geographic team sought to find evidence of their fate—but the Arctic ...

2014年9月10日 · In 1845, two decades after his last mission to the Arctic, Sir John Franklin set out in search of the illusive Northwest Passage which, it was hoped, might provide a lucrative shortcut for trade...

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