6412 x 3502 px | 54,3 x 29,7 cm | 21,4 x 11,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
2. Dezember 2021
Ort:
The Polar Museum, Cambridge, UK
Weitere Informationen:
Portraits of officers from HMS Erebus and the ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition on display at The Polar Museum in Cambridge, UK. This lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed from England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether a better understanding could aid navigation. The expedition met with disaster after both ships and their crews, a total of 129 officers and men, became icebound in Victoria Strait near King William Island in what is today the Canadian territory of Nunavut. After being icebound for more than a year Erebus and Terror were abandoned in April 1848, by which point Franklin and nearly two dozen others had died. The survivors, now led by Franklin's second-in-command, Francis Crozier, and Erebus' captain, James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared.
