Search for the Northwest Passage pt1

[debbiegoderie]

Roald Amundsen was my Great Uncle! May he rest in peace. xoxoxoxox

[CroMarduk]

Im reading Terror all over again, I would love to see the movie made from this book.

[Svalbard25]

Thanks for sharing Steve!

[catagilitymaster]

I'd do anything just to go and sit on that rock beside the graves. I'm obsessed with this Expedition, and I agree with Cuirassier23. "The Terror" is a very well written book!

[emmers57]

Those poor boys.

[skylur44]

They just found one of the rescue ships who came to look for Franklin, still under water but in remarkably good condition due to the cold. The crew were rescued by another ship and so their ship was abandoned.

[CroMarduk]

This was just a 150 years ago, imagine what were the vikings going trough when they reached shores of northern canada, almost 1000 years ago.

[TigerRifle1]

@CroMarduk they didn't sail through pack ice during the little ice age.

[CroMarduk]

@TigerRifle1 really, how do you know that.

[TigerRifle1]

@CroMarduk Because they sailed to Greenland during a warming trend and barely sailed above the arctic circle.

[CroMarduk]

@TigerRifle1 Yeah, but still those were boats without cabins and those sailors were rowing.

[theylive1984rm]

you wolud think the graves would be completly exposed with all that global warming melting the ice and snow ?

[abooga8]

@theylive1984rm they were buried inside the ground on an island.

[theylive1984rm]

yea all they need was GPS and satellite photos and they would have made it in the 3mounths of summer openings

[piercedsquid]

even in the summer though, the passage is still a maze of tiny islands, shallow waters and even a few icebergs and floes. These are things that satellite photos might be of some assistance with, but gps is useless in uncharted areas

[core1976scotland]

Those ships were modern for the time.

[kittyjohnson17]

does anyone know where the "franklin's expedition" video went to? If not, can anyone tell me the name so I can find it? It really was a good documentary - not that this one isnt - however it was really informative, and had a few more theories on the fate if the expedition! can anyone help me?

[8757kathy]

it would be a great day for historians if they ever find the ships i hope one day they do,i am reading andrew lamberts book ..franklin tragic hero of polar navigation...its good

[Cuirassier23]

I'd recommend any interested in Franklin's quest for the Northwest Passage to read Dan Simmons novel, "The Terror", for an excellent historical fiction account on the Expedition.

[CroMarduk]

@Cuirassier23 just reading it, that's why I looked up a documentary on the subject.

[wamij2]

@Cuirassier23 DAN SIMMONS ''THE TERROR'' has got to be one of the greatest reads among historical novels, I'd rank it up there with Moby Dick!

[matteoprez]

@Cuirassier23 How funny... I just finished reading "The Terror" ad I ended up reading your comment on here. By the way, you are absolutely right. Great, compelling reading.

[demonella]

I saw this exact doco one saturday morning. It was your typical lazy saturday and I was delighted to find a doco was on. I expected something informative and entertaining. I did not anticipate something anywhere near this depressing.

Beautiful doco. Depressing as hell.

[JonasE1969]

saw this perticular program on viasat history, but with another narrator.

[themainthing1974]

I remember first reading about the excavation of John Torrington's body when I was 10. I've been haunted by the story of the lost Franklin expedition ever since.

[Trixi4ever]

The same with me - only that I was 13 or 14 at that time.

[prinznevsky]

oh yeah! his picture was in Weekly Reader(for kids !) when I was 9 or 10. and then there was the NOVA episode where they filmed the exhumation of Hartnell and Braine. fascinating and horrifying for a little, kid, but got me into the history of it. "Barrow's Boys" is a great book on the subject. as well as Owen Beattie's "Frozen in Time"