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Franklin's Lost Expedition (Erebus & Terror)

Lost 1845, found 2014-16, Off King William Island, Nunavut, Canada
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Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

Franklin's Lost Expedition (Erebus & Terror): still unexplained.

Relics of a doomed Arctic voyage

The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
Relics of a doomed Arctic voyage
The account

Sir John Franklin's two ships vanished seeking the Northwest Passage in 1845. The wrecks were finally found in 2014 and 2016, artifacts still aboard, and still being explored today.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Off King William Island, Nunavut, Canada; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
  • What is there: Relics of a doomed Arctic voyage.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Off King William Island, Nunavut, Canada; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • Confirm the permit and ownership before any dive or visit, since sites like this are usually protected.
  • What is there: Relics of a doomed Arctic voyage.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.

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The first leads, so no one walks in cold.
Sources and the record
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Latest Word From the Newswire

Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

Checking the wire…

Chart position 68.230°, -98.950° (approx.) View on the Map