Frozen in Time
The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5292760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Savours, Owen Beattie, John Geiger |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 154 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 270 |
| Publication date | 1988-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/633870 |
| OpenAlex | W2010638647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
A reconstruction of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1848 when the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus disappeared. This study was made possible by the discovery of a bleached human skull, found by the team working with anthropologist Dr Owen Beattie on 29 June 1981. This led to 3 further scientific expeditions over the next five years, during which time more information was pieced together. The bodies of 3 Victorian seamen were found on King William Island, well preserved by the permafrost for 133 years which enabled twentieth century forensic and anthropological scientists to uncover the mystery. Also revealed were the circumstances by which the surviving members of Franklin's elite naval forces came within sight of the Northwest Passage, which was their journey's goal, only to succumb to the horrors of starvation, scurvy and cannibalism. Included is a photographic record of the excavation with maps and illustrations and the conclusions reached by twentieth century forensic and anthropological scientists
Archaeology · Geography · Geology · Polar Research and Ecology
Evidence for End-stage Cannibalism on Sir John Franklin's Last Expedition to the Arctic, 1845
Recent Publications Relating To Canada
Exploration, Exploitation, Expansion, and Settlement
Cold comfort
Ghosts in the archive
Victorian prescience
A re-analysis of the supposed role of lead poisoning in Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845–1848
Sŭ-pung-er’s pillar
The tragedy at Kapp Thordsen, Spitsbergen, 1872–1873. Could lead poisoning have been the cause
The health of nine Royal Naval Arctic crews, 1848 to 1854
The men who sailed with Franklin
Further light on Franklin's men
Search for Barents
Bushmanship
Recent Literature in Discovery History
Recent Literature in Discovery History
Collaborating in Open Boats
The Franklin expedition
Hartnell's time machine” reprise
Hartnell's time machine
Cognitive archaeology
The Franklin Relics in the Arctic Archive
Scurvy as a factor in the loss of the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic
High performance mass spectrometry reveals possible kerogen substructures in persistent ancient human brain
New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin’s last expedition to the Arctic, 1845
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Bibliographie d’histoire de l’Amérique française (publications récentes)
The Royal Marines on Franklin's last expedition
A database for depicting Arctic sea ice variations back to 1850
The Spectral Arctic
Immune to death
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2023 (38) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |