Traveling exhibit offers clues to how the Franklin Expedition was lost

And it explains the role Inuit played in finding the remains of its crew.

By Yereth Rosen June 20, 2019
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For more than a century and a half, mystery has shrouded the Franklin Expedition, a doomed attempt to find the fabled Northwest Passage. The expedition’s two ships departed England in 1845 and were abandoned three years later in the Arctic ice off Canada’s King William Island. All 129 crew members died. Left behind were scraps, broken relics, some graves and bones.

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