King William Island
Books
- Erebus and Terror The Search for Franklin and the Evidence of the Ice · Liszt Think
In May 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Baffin Bay and vanished.
- The Machinery of Unease…tion by men confident that what had worked before would work again. In April 1848, as Crozier’s party dragged their boats across the ice of King William Island, Ross was still in England. His ships would not reach the Bering Strait until August. By then, the survivors of Franklin’s expedition were…
- The Comfort of Protocol…r lay frozen in their harbors, the events that would define Franklin’s fate were proceeding in a silence that no search could penetrate. On King William Island, if any of Franklin’s men still lived, they were preparing for a third winter in the ice, or a fourth, or preparing to abandon their ships…
- The First Mark on the Map…than desperation. The Admiralty authorized additional expeditions, additional funding, additional instructions to search the coastlines of King William Island and the channels beyond. Lady Jane Franklin intensified her campaign, using the concrete evidence of the graves to argue for more concrete…