129 People Died in a Doomed Polar Expedition 178 Years Ago. One of the Victims Was Just Identified.
John Franklin died on June 11, 1847, but 105 officers and crew survived long enough to abandon the ships on April 22, 1848, and set out on foot hoping to reach Back’s Fish River. Commander James Fitzjames, who had been aboard the HMS Erebus, was one of those men. None of them were ever seen alive again.
Captain Confirmed As First Cannibalism Victim On Doomed Franklin Arctic Expedition
Concrete evidence of James Fitzjames as the first identified victim of cannibalism lifts the veil of anonymity that for 170 years spared the families of individual members of the 1845 Franklin expedition from the horrific reality of what might have befallen the body of their ancestor.
DNA confirms identity of doomed Franklin expedition captain who was eaten by own crew 170 years ago
The researchers identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, second-in-command of the Erebus, through DNA extracted from a molar attached to a jawbone. The bone, found on King William Island in the Canadian Arctic, bore chilling evidence: cut marks consistent with cannibalism.
Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors
The expedition set sail on May 19, 1845, and was last seen in July 1845 in Baffin Bay by the captains of two whaling ships. Historians have compiled a reasonably credible account of what happened. The crew spent the winter of 1845–1846 on Beechey Island, where the graves of three crew members were found.
A fan of AMC’s The Terror helped identify real-life crew member of doomed expedition
It’s an exciting time to be a part of AMC’s The Terror fandom. Through the efforts of one of its members, a team of researchers were able to reveal the fate of one of the men who died in the real life events depicted by the show.
Doomed Franklin Expedition Ate Their Captain, Bone Study Reveals
With this research, Fitzjames becomes the first identified victim of cannibalism from the Franklin expedition. His recovered bones have been placed in a cairn, along with the others, and marked with a memorial plaque at the site of their deaths.
Shocking DNA results suggest crew of doomed 1845 expedition ate their captain
In a shocking revelation, new DNA evidence suggests that a doomed expedition to the Northwest Passage 180 years ago likely ended in cannibalism!
In a 1st, DNA analysis reveals identity of captain cannibalized during ill-fated Franklin expedition
Scientists have discovered the identity of a cannibalized victim who sailed on the doomed Northwest Passage expedition of 1845 to 1848.
Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage
A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the ...
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DNA Reveals Identity of Officer on the Lost Franklin Expedition—and His Remains Show Signs of Cannibalism
Researchers recently identified James Fitzjames, a captain on the ill-fated HMS Erebus that went looking for the Northwest ...
Cannibalised remains from doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition finally identified
The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of ...
Arctic explorers vanished in 1845. Now, cannibalized body of crew member identified
When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the ...