Ignite Liverpool - Ella Wredenfors -- Cannibalism!: The Sir John Franklin Story

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In May 1845 HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set sail from England to find the fabled North-West Passage under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin. Last seen on 26 July 1845, in Lancaster Sound, the expedition was never heard from again... The mystery became a defining Victorian obsession, and is a story of racist jingoism, lonely death on the ice and cannibalism. If you liked the Shackleton exhibition at Merseyside Maritime Museum, you should enjoy the original story of polar expedition gone disastrously wrong

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  • I think Scott's main problem was that he never learned from the mistakes he made in previous expeditions, he never said "that didn't work, let's try something else", he just went on with the plan. I don't know if this was a Victorian attitude or not. I do not think the failure of Scott's last expedition was bad luck as some would say. The Franklin Expedition was lost due to bad luck, circumstances arose that they could not have foreseen.

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