tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58616045596446713782024-03-05T07:12:36.630-08:00Franklin's Lost ExpeditionInformational blog about the Canadian search for Franklin's lost ship in the ArcticAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988054551476207691noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861604559644671378.post-63601058385575165172012-12-03T19:07:00.002-08:002012-12-03T19:07:32.405-08:00Welcome!<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It was in 1845 that
Sir John Franklin departed from England on an expedition to discover the
Northwest Passage. In 1846 his two ships, the Erebus and Terror were trapped in
the ice an abandoned two years later. Everyone on the voyage died, leaving
little evidence to be found. The mystery of what happened to the ships has been
ongoing over 150 years. Many have tried and have failed to find them, but this
year the government of Canada decided to renew the search for what they call
our “only undiscovered national historic site”.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> This blog has
everything you need to know about the expedition to find Franklin's ships and
the history behind the project.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988054551476207691noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861604559644671378.post-85838281465761602622012-12-03T18:29:00.003-08:002012-12-03T18:34:06.605-08:00What to Learn more?<br />
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<a href="http://o.canada.com/2012/09/09/bones-artifacts-found-from-franklin-expedition-but-so-far-no-ships-2/"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://o.canada.com/2012/09/09/bones-artifacts-found-from-franklin-expedition-but-so-far-no-ships-2/</span></a><br />
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</span><a href="http://o.canada.com/2012/08/23/franklin-expedition-search-resumes-in-canadian-arctic-for-lost-ship/"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://o.canada.com/2012/08/23/franklin-expedition-search-resumes-in-canadian-arctic-for-lost-ship/</span></span></a><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/culture/franklin/sec03/sec03a.aspx"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/culture/franklin/sec03/sec03a.aspx</span></span></a><br />
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</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin's_lost_expedition</span></a><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/06/f-franklin-search-erebus-terror-arctic.html"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/06/f-franklin-search-erebus-terror-arctic.html</span></a><br />
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</span><a href="http://activehistory.ca/2010/07/in-search-of-the-franklinexpedition"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://activehistory.ca/2010/07/in-search-of-the-franklin
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<a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/history/franklin/franklin.html"><span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.victorianweb.org/history/franklin/franklin.html</span></a> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While the 2012 expedition wrapped
up this September, archaeologists on the expedition in the Canadian Arctic have
discovered the human remains they believe are from members of the crew. The underwater
expedition did not turn up any ships, but what they found on land was more artifacts
from the ill-fated expedition in 1845. At Erebus Bay, where members of the crew
were known to have died, more human remains were discovered. Among them were a
human tooth, scapula and vertebrae. They also found a toothbrush, nails with
Royal Navy symbols, buttons and tiny scraps of cloth on King Williams Island.
The button has “Portsmouth” engraved on it. Some of this archaeological work
included the use of a metal detector.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> While this expedition
is good for many researchers and for mapping out the sea and making it safer
for ships traveling through the area, one has to wonder, are there ulterior
motives to the Canadian government backing up this expedition? The answer to some is an
obvious yes. </span><br />
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Globe and Mail, the government’s willingness to incest in the Franklin search
signals that there is far more going on with this project than simply an interest
in finding two old ships. An investment like this simply for the pursuit of historical
knowledge is unprecedented. Some view is as a way to assert Canadian sovereignty
over the Arctic Islands and waterways. This is becoming more significant as the
climate change is affecting the north and opening it up to more foreign
vessels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Canada is using the Franklin shipwreck
to assert a greater claim over the Northwest Passage; though this is debated by
many as having no real political impact on these affairs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Sir Franklin had the best technologies
for his ship when he left for the Northwest Passage, but their modern day
engineering failed them. But today there is one price of technology that is
bringing up the hopes of the crew on this expedition. From the University of
Victoria comes something that resembles a yellow torpedo that measures about
four meters longs. It called “Mano”, Hawaiian for shark, and it is a fully
autonomous submarine that has been outfitted with a fully sonar system. </span></div>
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Vehicle — will travel on its own, systematically mapping the ocean
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mano is a
self-guided drone that map objects down to a centimeter in size, mapping the
sea floor over a fairly wide swath beneath the vehicle. Unlike other GPS and satellite
receiver that are connected to the boat and depend on good weather, i.e. no
wind, so clear picture, Mano dives beneath the waves securing a clear picture
of the ocean floor by bouncing sounds waves. Mano can essentially drive right
below bad weather and prowl over the sea floor at a predetermined altitude. It has
the ability to run for 12 hours at a time, with the only downside being that
you cannot get live updates on the floor, but all the information is downloaded
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>During the 20<sup>th</sup> century,
survey launches became motorized and advances in electronics set in motion a
series of revolutionary changes. Measurements in the old days were taken by
dropping the leadline into the water and reading the depth from markings on the
line once the lead at the end of the line reached the seabed, then pulling up
the line and moving to another position. Today, sound has become the new tool
for measuring water depths. This technique evolved to the point where there was
a continuous line of soundings being recorded. Now hydrographers can generate
three-dimensional images of the seafloor by multibeam sounders, equal to
land-based mapping by planes. This technology means that we can not only map
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
expedition has also sued LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) surveys. This uses
laser to measure water depth from an aircraft. This method shows promise for
acquiring the same coverage as multibeam, but at the speed of n aircraft. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988054551476207691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861604559644671378.post-43039594925342112632012-12-03T14:50:00.001-08:002012-12-03T18:33:37.040-08:00The 2012 Expedition<br />
The 2012 expedition is being led by Park’s Canada under the National Historic
Sites Directorate and the Underwater Archaeology Services Program. The expedition
is expected to take 4-6 weeks starting in August and will cost approximately
$275,000. This expedition is a continuation of Park’s Canada’s Underwater
Archaeology Service surveys conducted in 2008, 2010 and 2011. Locating the HMS
Erebus and HMS Terror continues to prove very challenging die to the vastness
of the Canadian Arctic and the harsh conditions frequently encountered in
northern waters. The expedition is also incorporating accounts of Franklin‘s
ship and crew from Inuit traditional knowledge.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The search areas include
both the O’Reilly Island area, west of the Adelaide Peninsula and where Inuit
Oral tradition places one of the shipwrecks, and further north to Victoria Strait
and Alexandra Strait, where the other vessel is believed to be located. Parks Canada
partnered with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to bring this story to the
Canadian public as well. You can find a lot of information about the expedition
on their site. <o:p></o:p><br />
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<em>The Canadian Icebreaker Sir wIlfred Laurier was used in this years expedition</em>.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988054551476207691noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861604559644671378.post-1093066100769682352012-12-03T14:28:00.001-08:002012-12-03T18:33:29.851-08:00The 1980s Canadian Expedition<br />
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For over 150 years people have been searching for
the two lost ships, (the Erebus and Terror). Owen Beattie, a University of
Alberta anthropologist let the first of 17 expeditions from 1981 to 2011. Going
back to Beechy Island and King William Island, Beattie and his crew studied the
graves, bodies and other physical evidence left by Franklin’s crew. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>From 1981-82, the Franklin Expedition Forensic
Anthropology Project (FEFAP) was conducted. The trek found archaeological
artifacts related to the 19<sup>th</sup>-century Europeans and undisturbed
disarticulated human remains. After examining the bones, Beattie notes areas a
pitting and scaling, often associated with vitamin C deficiency, the cause of
scurvy. He also noticed skeletal patterns suggesting cannibalism. They also
found unexpected levels of lead in the bones, 10 times higher than the control
samples taken from Inuit skeletons form the same geographic region. Other discoveries
at King William Island include the remains of between 6 and 14 men and
artifacts including a complete boot sole fittest with makeshift cleats for
better traction. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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In 1984, Beattie and his group exhumed three
well-preserved bodies of crew members on Beechy Island in the permafrost. These
men’s bodies were well preserved, and undisturbed for many long decades. There they
performed autopsies on the three crew men. Trace samples from the body and hair
of John Shaw Torrington indicated that the crewmen were probably suffering from
severe mental and physical problems caused by lead poisoning. The lead
poisoning most likely came from the tin cans in which their food was held in.
the seams of the cans were poorly soldered with lead, which came in direct
contact with their food. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fro<em>zen mummy of John Shaw Torrington: This picture, along with the information collective sparked interest in the Franklin expedition again.</em></td></tr>
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Just to give you an idea of what lead poisoning can
do; lead poisoning is known to cause insanity including delirium, cognitive deficits,
tremors, hallucinations and convulsions. This coupled with the brutal cold,
scurvy, and extreme isolation of being trapped at sea makes it a high probability
that these men went mad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This also
contributes to the evidence of cannibalism in the form of gnaws and cuts on the
human bones. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12988054551476207691noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5861604559644671378.post-83162659235316753222012-12-03T13:47:00.000-08:002012-12-03T18:41:43.920-08:00History of the Expedition<br />
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Sir John Franklin set out in 1845 in the hopes of
finding the Northwest Passage in order to have a faster trade route From Europe
to Asia. He set sail with a crew of 128 men and three year worth of provisions.
Franklin believed that they would be able to make it in one year, and so they
had their mail sent straight to the orient, so it would arrive at the same time
as them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Franklin brought the finest crew and the newest
technologies with him. The ships’ bows were reinforced with iron planks to help
them break through the ice, and the cabins were even heated by hot water piped
through the floor. Despite this, the trip was still doomed and the last people
to see the expedition were two whaling ships, the “Prince of Whales” and the “Enterprise”
in Baffin Bay. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After three years, and no word from the expedition,
the Royal Navy launched a rescue party in search of the missing explorers. There
was even a £20,000 reward for their rescue. By 1850, the first trace of the
trip was found on Beechy Island in the Eastern Arctic: the remnants of a winter
camp, along with the graves of three sailors. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lady Jane Franklin, Sir
John’s wife, commissioned a second expedition that located handwritten messages
left by the crew under a pile of rocks. The report was that the two ships, the
Erebus and Terror has been locked in ice for over a year and a half and 24 men
had died during that time, including Sir John Franklin. Because they were
running out of provision, the crew decided to abandon ship and trek south. This message was found along with a couple skeletons of the sailors who had not made it. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 0.8em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A few skeletons of Franklin's doomed expedition
are found on King William's Island in the 19</span><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> century.</span></span></td></tr>
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