The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James Fitzjames. The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of Captain ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent ...

Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition is a moment of history that piques a great deal of interest and imagination today. The sailors who died trying to ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin's doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

In 1993, the skeletal remains of more than a dozen sailors lost on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition through the Northwest Passage were found scattered along the rocks of a remote island in ...

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Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive. Reading time 2 minutes On May 19, 1845, two ...

The first known victim of cannibalism from the British Royal Navy's doomed Franklin expedition has been identified as Captain James Fitzjames. The officer is the second member of the ill-fated 1845 ...

When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the Arctic, he and his crew didn’t know the harrowing fate ahead of them. Their ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA ...

Although the ill-fated Franklin Arctic expedition of 150 years ago was popularly believed to be a voyage in search of the elusive Northwest Passage, it was actually a scientific probe for accurate ...