Franklin's lost expedition

Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data…

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Which happened first?

• Franklin's lost expedition began 41 years after Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Franklin's lost expedition began 48 years before Nansen's Fram expedition (1893–1896)
• Franklin's lost expedition began 52 years before S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897
• Franklin's lost expedition began 52 years before Belgian Antarctic Expedition
• Franklin's lost expedition began 53 years before Southern Cross Expedition

Timeline

1. Lewis and Clark ExpeditionMay 14, 1804 – September 23, 1806
2. Franklin's lost expedition (this page)May 19, 1845 – 1848
3. Nansen's Fram expedition (1893–1896)1893–1896
4. Belgian Antarctic ExpeditionAugust 16, 1897 – November 5, 1899
5. S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897July 1897 – October 1897
6. Southern Cross ExpeditionAugust 22, 1898 – April 1, 1900

Related

• Amundsen's South Pole expeditionJune 3, 1910 – January 30, 1912
• Terra Nova ExpeditionJune 1, 1910 – June 14, 1913
• British Antarctic Expedition (1907–1909)August 1907 – March 1909
• Discovery Expedition (1901-1904)1901–1904
• Expedition EnduranceAugust 8, 1914 – January 1917
• Japanese Antarctic ExpeditionDecember 1, 1910 – June 20, 1912
• Shackleton–Rowett Expedition1921–1922
• Gauss expeditionAugust 11, 1901 – 1903