Use your best endeavours to discover a sheltered and safe harbour
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9224620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert W Park (0000-0002-4520-6382, University of Waterloo, corresponding author), Douglas R Stenton (0000-0002-8561-1470, University of Waterloo) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 361-372 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247419000573 |
| OpenAlex | W2981714274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 42 |
On 24 May 1847, Sir John Franklin’s third expedition reported “All well”, but less than a year later, on 22 April 1848, the 129 sailors who had set out from Britain on Erebus and Terror had been reduced to 105 survivors departing their frozen ships in a desperate attempt to escape the Arctic. At least 24 were so unhealthy that they would perish after having travelled little more than 100 km from the ships. By contrast, the small mortality rates on other contemporary Arctic expeditions, some of which stayed in the Arctic considerably longer, were consistent with the mortality rates in the Royal Navy worldwide. This paper explores the question of what difference caused so many of Franklin’s crew to die during their final months on-board the ships and in the initial stages of the escape attempt. From the perspective of cultural ecology, the most significant difference, and the ultimate cause of the catastrophe as it unfolded, was wintering in the ice pack. This distinguished the Franklin expedition from all of the other comparable overwintering expeditions, and precluded the Erebus and Terror crews from hunting or fishing. That in turn led to nutritional deficiencies due to much greater reliance on stored provisions than other expeditions
Archaeology · Arctic · Biology · Crew · Fishery · Geography · Harbour · Navy · Overwintering · The arctic · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Ecology · Geology · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Marine animal studies overview · Oceanography
Cognitive archaeology
The integration of isotopic and historical data to investigate the identification of crewmembers of the 1845 Franklin expedition
Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition
Human hair from the wreck of HMS Erebus of the Franklin Expedition, 1845
A Franklin expedition officer's burial at Two Grave Bay, King William Island, Nunavut
DNA identifications of three 1845 Franklin expedition sailors from HMS Erebus
Victorian prescience
DNA identification of a sailor from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage expedition
The Royal Navy’s preserved meat “scandal”
Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific
The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin
Narrative of a second voyage in search of a North-West Passage
Narrative of an expedition in H. M. S. Terror, undertaken with a view to geographical discovery on the Arctic shores, in the years 1836-7, by Captain Back.
Arctic Migrants/Arctic Villagers
Did solder kill Franklins men?
"The Discovery of the Northwest Passage, by H.M.S. ''Investigator", Capt. R. M'Clure
Narrative of an Expedition in H.M.S. Terror
Appendix to the Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage and a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833
Vitamin C in the Diet of Inuit Hunters From Holman, N.W.T
A Critical Assessment of the Oral Condition of the Crew of the Franklin Expedition + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools)
A Most Inhospitable Coast
A Case Study
History, Oral History and Archaeology
DNA analysis of human skeletal remains from the 1845 Franklin expedition
Hartnell's time machine” reprise
Hartnell's time machine
Scurvy as a factor in the loss of the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic
Skeletal Lead Burden of the British Royal Navy in Colonial Antigua
Discovery of human remains from Sir John Franklin’s last expedition
Lead and the Last Franklin Expedition
New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin’s last expedition to the Arctic, 1845
The Lead Content of Human Bones from the 1845 Franklin Expedition
Finding the dead
A re-analysis of the supposed role of lead poisoning in Sir John Franklin's last expedition, 1845–1848
The health of nine Royal Naval Arctic crews, 1848 to 1854
Frozen Ships
Central Eskimo Systems of Food Sharing
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |