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Sir John Franklin - English
URL: http://www.ekkane.org/Biographies/BioFranklin.htm

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Captain Sir John Franklin's disappearance in the Arctic -- along with two ships and 128 officers and crew -- was a celebrated mystery in the nineteenth century, attracting enormous public attention both in Great Britain and the United States. Some forty expeditions were launched in search of his party, funded both by governments and public subscriptions. In a way, Franklin's expedition was the Apollo 13 of his times -- only, in his times, without radio or modem communications, such potential martyrdom came with painful slowness.

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John Franklin: English Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/f/franklin.shtml

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Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was an English explorer and Admiral who proved the existence of a Northwest Passage (a water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through Canada).

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John Franklin - Arctic Explorers - All Things Arctic - English
URL: http://www.allthingsarctic.com/exploration/franklin.htm

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In 1845, British Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin (born April 16, 1786) became the first man to prove the existence of a sea passage through the North American Arctic, though it was blocked by sea ice and unnavigable at the time. His expedition ended tragically, however, after his ships were caught in sea ice between Victoria and King William Islands.

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Franklin, Sir John - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0819489.html

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, 1786–1847, British explorer in N Canada whose disappearance caused a widespread search of the Arctic. Entering the navy in 1801, he fought in the battle of Trafalgar. On his first overland expedition (1819–22) in N Canada, his party crossed the barren grounds from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic coast at the mouth of the Coppermine River and explored eastward along the coast for c. 175 mi (280 km).

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1Up Info - Franklin, Sir John (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/F/FranklinJ.html

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1786–1847, British explorer in N Canada whose disappearance caused a widespread search of the Arctic. Entering the navy in 1801, he fought in the battle of Trafalgar. On his first overland expedition (1819–22) in N Canada, his party crossed the barren grounds from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic coast at the mouth of the Coppermine River and explored eastward along the coast for c.175 mi (280 km).

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Sir John Franklin - English
URL: http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/SJFranklin.html

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A Multimedia overview of the public fascination with Sir John Franklin and the Arctic regions Includes images from Panoramas, The Illustrated Press, popular engravings, daguerreotypes, and documents illuminating the British and American obsession with Franklin's Fate.

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The Franklin Trail Homepage - English
URL: http://www.netscapades.com/franklintrail/

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The Franklin Trail website provides information about Canada's Arctic geography, environment, culture and history, exploring their interconnected influence on the shaping of European and Inuit interaction.

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John Franklin [portrait] - English
URL: http://images.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/tasimg/feb1998/12406769.htm

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