Fitzjames’ jaw—and many other crewmembers’ bones—are etched with cut marks consistent with cannibalism. This suggests that Fitzjames died while at least some other sailors were still alive ...
Local Inuit also told searchers in the 1850s that survivors of the Franklin Expedition had practiced cannibalism, and in 1997, Dr. Anne Keenlyside found incision marks on nearly a quarter of the ...