Other choices were rejected by the Admiralty until Franklin was settled upon. James Clark Ross declined as he had made a promise to his wife that he would give up polar exploration. His first choice, William Edward Parry, declined as he had had enough of the Arctic. Sir John Franklin was not the first choice for the expeditionīarrow spent a long time deliberating over who should command this expedition. Image Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1. Here are 10 facts about the fateful Franklin Expedition that followed. Barrow believed that the Northwest Passage would soon be discovered. These expeditions meant that by 1845 more was known about the Canadian Arctic. Franklin’s early expeditions were disastrous.
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A series of major expeditions were undertaken to the Arctic, including three by Sir John Franklin in 1818, 18. Sir John Barrow, Second Lord of the Admiralty from 1804 to 1845, pushed the Royal Navy to find the Northwest Passage and navigate towards the North Pole. By 1800, these explorations concluded that no Northwest Passage existed in temperate waters. This was a sea route between the Pacific and Atlantic along the northern coast of North America, and was thought to be a possible trade route from Europe to Asia.Įxpeditions were undertaken in the 17th and 18th centuries, by explorers including James Cook, James Knight, and Christopher Middleton, to uncover new geographic regions. When expeditions in the 15th and 16th centuries opened North America up to Europe, many nations sought to find shortcuts from Europe to Asia through a speculated Northwest Passage.
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