The Arctic Council planning a search for Sir John Franklin by Stephen Pearce, captain morgan calories. Sir John Franklin was Barrow’s reluctant choice to lead the expedition.
She married John Franklin in 1828, a year before he was knighted. Commander James Fitzjames commanded the expedition’s flagship, HMS Erebus. James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared, presumably having perished. Pressed by Franklin’s wife, Jane, and others, the Admiralty launched a search for the missing expedition in 1848. In the many subsequent searches in the decades afterwards, several artifacts from the expedition were discovered, including the remains of two men, which were returned to Britain. Despite the expedition’s notorious failure, it did succeed in exploring the vicinity of what was one of the many Northwest Passages to eventually be discovered. In 2014 a Canadian search team led by Parks Canada located the wreck of Erebus in the eastern portion of Queen Maud Gulf.
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century voyagers who made geographic discoveries about North America included Martin Frobisher, John Davis, Henry Hudson and William Baffin. In 1804 Sir John Barrow became Second Secretary of the Admiralty, a post he held until 1845. Barrow was now 82 years old and nearing the end of his career. He felt that the expeditions were close to finding a Northwest Passage, perhaps through what Barrow believed to be an ice-free Open Polar Sea around the North Pole.