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The Explorers Podcast

The Lost Franklin Expedition - Part 2

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Franklin Expedition disappears in the Canadian Arctic while trying to find the Northwest Passage. Part 2 in our series examines the tragic fate of Franklin, his men and their ships - and the 170+ years of searching for clues to the expedition's ultimate end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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my friends.

1:30.0

Welcome to the Explorers Podcast.

1:32.0

Today is the second and final part in our series on the Lost Franklin

1:35.8

expedition. Let us get started.

1:39.2

Last time we left Sir John Franklin and his two ships, Erebus and Terror, at Beachy Island in the Canadian Arctic

1:44.9

Archipelago, just as the ice was breaking up in 1846.

1:49.4

Three men had died the previous winter, but the crews would likely have been eager to get out of their winter

1:53.2

quarters, which had probably lasted upwards of eight or nine months, including three months

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