This is part two of a two-part series about the Franklin expedition, an Arctic expedition

that set out to chart the Northwest passage, and also about my own trip aboard an Arctic

cruise with my bunkmate John Stewart following in their path.

If you haven't listened to it yet, I suggest you go back and listen to part one.

And now part two.

Sometime in the early 1900s, in the northern islands of the Canadian Arctic, an innuid girl

named Humahawk was out with her father walking across the ice and rocks.

She was about seven or eight at the time, and Humahawk and her father were out looking

for driftwood, when something bright caught her eye.

A glint of light, the sun reflecting off of an odd metal object.

And they are laying in the snow of the vast Arctic plain.

She found a single engraved dinner knife.

It was a relic of a long-lost crew, and one key in unlocking the fate of the Franklin

expedition.

I'm Dylan Therese, and this is Atlas Obscura, an exploration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we follow the Franklin story to its end.

And we get to the end of John and my expedition, as well.

After this.

There was a huge bump.

This is about 15-20 minutes after the big bump, and it feels like the ship is trying to

pull itself off of a rock.

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