Ekspedycja Franklina: fakty i mity w świetle nowych badań

• Authors: Natalia Kowalczyk

Title variants

EN

Franklin’s lost expedition: facts and myths in the light of new research

Abstracts

EN

The subject of this text Franklin’s lost Expedition of 1845. The lost British exploration expedition to the Arctic, led by captain John Franklin, which left England in 1845 on two ships, HMS „Erebus” and HMS „Terror”. Article attempts to collect and analyze recent research on the reasons for the failure of the research expedition. Bringing closer the theory of lead poisoning as well as challenging it with new research. Locations of shipwrecks and analysis of the reports on the alleged grave of sir John Franklin.

Keywords

EN

Franklin’s lost expedition; HMS Erebus; HMS Terror; cannibalism; Canadian Arctic; Inuit

• Publisher: Fundacja PSC
• Journal: Alcumena. Pismo Interdyscyplinarne
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 2(6)
• Pages: 17-34

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Natalia Kowalczyk

• Uniwersytet Łódzki

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34813/psc.2.2021.2

Biblioteka Nauki

32466438