Lost Franklin Expedition Ship Found by Canadian Scientists - JSTOR Daily

By Margaret SmithSeptember 30, 20142 min read

In 2014, a Canadian team announced they had found the shipwrecks of John Franklin's lost 1845 expedition.

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