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This web is mainly in the Czech language. It is a strange Slavic language, spoken in the Czech Republic. :-)
There are many other websites concerning the last Franklin expedition in English. You can find links to a lot of them below .
There is also online map of the Franklin expedition created by the author of this website. Very rarely I publish texts in English on Blogspot.
Any comments, questions and suggestions in English (or Czech, of course) are welcomed at info@franklinova-expedice.cz. Bug reports (dysfunctional links, grammar mistakes, etc.), and proposals for new links are especially appreciated.
Useful links
Here you can start your learning about Franklin's lost expedition... :-)
Documents
- Copies of Instructions Addressed to Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N., in reference to the Arctic Expedition of 1845
Google Books
Scanned text of the Instructions. - Instructions Addressed to Captain Sir John Franklin (5 May 1845)
Canadian Mysteries
Slightly abbreviated text of the Instructions. - James Fitzjames: Last will and testament 1845
Fabiënne Tetteroo. jamesfitzjames.com
An annotated transcript of the will including images of parts of the original document. - Muster Rolls of H.M.SS. "Erebus" and "Terror"
Richard J. Cyriax, Russell Potter.
From Richard J. Cyriax, Sir John Franklin's Last Arctic Expedition. Collated with the original rolls. - Service Record (jamesfitzjames.com)
Fabiënne Tetteroo. jamesfitzjames.com
Original and transcription of a self-completed questionnaire by James Fitzjames, used as the basis for O'Byrne's biographical dictionary of officers of the British Royal Navy. - The Beechey Papers
Logan Zachary. illuminator dot blog
High-resolution photos of non-newsprint fragments of papers left at Beechey Island by the Franklin expedition. Photographed in late 2019. - The Last Will and Testament of Francis R. M. Crozier
Arctonauts - Will of James Fitzjames, Commander in the Royal Navy
James Fitzjames.
Scanned version in The National Archives (United Kingdom]. - Arctic expeditions. Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 10 May 1850; - for, copies of instructions from the Admiralty to Captain Austin, R.N., C.B., and to any other officers, in Her Majesty's Service engaged in Arctic expeditions, since the date of the last Parliamentary return
, 10.05.1850
Instructions from the British Admiralty to the captains of ships searching for the Franklin expedition, issued in 1850. On the Toronto Public Library server. - Preserved meats (Navy) : return to an order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 5 February 1852; - for, Returns "showing the date and terms of all contracts for preserved meat for the use of Her Majesty's Navy with Goldner; also the quantities issued since the commencement of the above contracts; specifying the quantities fit for use, as well as the quantities either condemned or returned into store as unfit or use, from any of Her Majesty's stores or ships, whether at home or abroad... "And the contract prices of beef and pork for the years 1848, 1849, 1850, and 1851."
, 13.02.1852
British Admiralty documents relating to orders for tinned meat from Goldner, a businessman, for use by the Royal Navy in connection with an investigation into the supply of spoiled tinned meat. - Artic Matters (Fitzjames' letters) (1/2)
James Fitzjames. The Nautical Magazine, March 1852, 1.03.1852
Letters of James Fitzjames addressed to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Coningham from the voyage of HMS Erebus from England to Greenland. They were published in the Nautical Magazine without the names of the author and addressee. - Artic Matters (Fitzjames' letters) (2/2)
James Fitzjames. The Nautical Magazine, April 1852, 1.04.1852
Letters of James Fitzjames addressed to his sister-in-law Elizabeth Coningham from the voyage of HMS Erebus from England to Greenland. In the second part the Nautical Magazine already lists the author as "Capt. Fitz James" (sic), the addressee remains anonymous. - Two Franklin Documents
The Beaver, September 1947, 1.09.1947
Letter from John Rae to Chief Factor John Ballenden of Fort Garry, in which Rae summarises the knowledge of the fate of the Franklin expedition obtained during his search in 1853-4, and a reproduction of an 1847 poster offering a reward for information about the lost Franklin expedition. - The Journal of Sergeant William K. Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror (PDF, Part 1)
William K. Cunningham, Richard Campbell. The Journal of the Hakluyt Society (April 2009), 1.04.2009
The first part of journal of Quartermaster Sergeant William Cunningham, who sailed in the HMS Terror on the expedition of James Clark Ross to the Antarctic in 1839-43. - The Journal of Sergeant William K. Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror (PDF, Part 2)
William K. Cunningham, Richard Campbell. The Journal of the Hakluyt Society (April 2009), 1.04.2009
The second part of journal of Quartermaster Sergeant William Cunningham, who sailed in the Terror on the expedition of James Clark Ross to the Antarctic in 1839-43. - The Journal of Sergeant William K. Cunningham, R.M. of HMS Terror (PDF, Part 3)
William K. Cunningham, Richard Campbell. The Journal of the Hakluyt Society (April 2009), 1.04.2009
The third part of journal of Quartermaster Sergeant William Cunningham, who sailed in the Terror on the expedition of James Clark Ross to the Antarctic in 1839-43. - Anonymous (Officer of the Expedition), 11/Jul/1845
Arctonauts, 9.11.2022
This letter is dated 11/Jul/1845 at Whale Fish Islands in Greenland, shortly before the Baretto Junior transport had to sail back to England. The author is one of the principal officers of the expedition, though he has not yet been identified for sure. The letter was taken from The Greenock Advertiser, 15/Aug/1845.
Blogs
- 70 North Beset
S. L. Shreve.
Author is a freelance writer, researcher, and archivist and this blog is his outlet for speculating, theorizing, and writing about the fate of Franklin and his crews for speculating, theorizing, and writing about the fate of Franklin and his crews. - All well (Polar notes by Allegra Rosenberg)
A blog of an American researcher on the Franklin expedition, Sir Clements Markham, and other polar topics. - Building HMS Terror
Matthew Bets.
"Building Terror", blog of a modeller building a 1:48 scale model of HMS Terror. The author is a Canadian archaeologist, author of "HMS Terror" book. - Captain of Terror
Regina Koellner. - Erebus & Terror Files
Peter Carney.
Occasional series of "rambling notes" (as author says) documenting author's thoughts and original research relating to the 1845 Franklin Expedition. - Finger-Post
Alison Freebairn.
Full title: There stood no friendly finger-post to guide us... The author is an independent researcher from Scotland who is based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her interests include Robert Anstruther Goodsir, the 1849-1859 searches for the Franklin Expedition, and Victorian graveyards. - Franklin's Ghost
Ted Betts. - Franklin's Lost Expedition
Informational blog about the Canadian search for Franklin's lost ship in the Arctic in 2012. - Hidden Tracks Archive
The full collection of all the writings from various blogs by late William Battersby. - illuminator dot blog
Logan Zachary.
The blog of the American researcher contains, among other things, a number of unique photographs. - In Search of Franklin
Ron Carlson.
Blog of an American searcher of the Franklin's expedition relics - jamesfitzjamesdotcom
Fabiënne Tetteroo.
Blog of the author of website jamesfitzjames.com on Tumblr. - Kabloonas
Andrés Paredes.
Blog in English by a Spanish author, dedicated to Arctic expeditions, especially to the John Franklin expedition. - Lauren Triola Writes
Lauren Triola.
A blog dedicated to researching the life of John Torrington, a member of the Franklin Expedition buried on Beechey Island. - Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition (Starvation Cove)
Chris. - Stars over Ice
Jaeschylus. - The Franklin Trail
John MacDonald.
Information about the Franklin expedition and several search expeditions from 1993-98. Not updated for a long time. - the thousandth part
"Thoughts and findings about the life and times of Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, R.N., often (predictably) associated with HMS Terror of the Franklin Expedition." - Visions of the North
Russell Potter.
Blog mainly about the John Franklin's expedition. The author is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He speciality is the history of polar exploration, with a focus on the the lost 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin. - Wall Bay
Blog looking into the history of Richard Wall, ship’s cook on HMS Erebus during Sir John Franklin’s tragic 1845 expedition.
Selected web pages
- Llanelli’s Lost Arctic Explorer
David Davies, Lyn John. Llanelli Community Heritage, 9.09.2010
Information about Franklin's expedition and a critical interpretation of its meaning and significance, with emphasis on the fate of Francis Dunn (a sailor on HMS Erebus), originally from Llanelli, Wales (including the text of a letter from Dunn to his parents in Orkney, where HMS Erebus and HMS Terror briefly docked).
Museum collections
- Relics from Sir John Franklin's last expedition
National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich)
Artifacts from Franklin's last expedition in the collections of the Greenwich Museum (use Start searching button).
Maps
- Franklin expedition Relics
Andrés Paredes.
A detailed Google map of the remains of the Franklin expedition. - Map of the Countries Round the North Pole
Edward Stanford.
Interactive viewer of a map by London cartographer Edward Stanford from around 1896. - Map of the Franklin expedition
Radek Svítil, Gustav Vávra.
Map of routes, relics and memorials of the Franklin expedition and related Artic expeditions. - Polar Expeditions
Andrés Paredes.
Google map. - Polar Museums, Memorials, Statues, Graves and Houses of Polar Explorers
Andrés Paredes.
Google map. - Polar People
Andrés Paredes.
Google map of the population of the polar regions. - The Arctic Graveyard
Andrés Paredes.
Google map of deaths during Arctic expeditions and graves of polar explorers. - The Names of the Arctic
Andrés Paredes.
Google map of Arctic geographical names. - Chart Showing the Vicinity of King William Island with the Various Positions in which Relics of the Arctic Expedition Under Sir John Franklin Have Been Found
Rupert Thomas Gould. The Mysteries of the Franklin Expedition (Canadian Mysteries), 27.05.1927
Selected journal articles/papers
- The Type and Number of Expeditions in the Franklin Search 1847–1859
W. Gillies Ross. Arctic, Vol. 55, No. 1 (March 2002), pp. 57-69, 1.03.2002
The article deals with the classification and number of expeditions searching for Franklin's expedition. - The “Boat Place” Burial: New Skeletal Evidence from the 1845 Franklin Expedition
Douglas R. Stenton, Anne Keenleyside, Robert W. Park. Arctic, Vol. 68, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 32–44, 23.02.2015
Results of excavations at the site where Lieutenant Hobson found the Franklin Expedition boat in 1859. - A Family Skeleton? Solving the Mystery of a Naval Surgeon on the Franklin Expedition
Iain Macintyre. Topics in the History of Medicine. 2021; Volume 1: 25-38., 1.01.2021
Biographical article on Harry Goodsir.
Thematic websites
- Arctic Archipelago
Peter Landry.
An online publication describing Franklin's life, the exploration of the Canadian Arctic, and the search for the Franklin Expedition. - Arctonauts
Edmund Wuyts.
Arctonauts tries to make sources about polar exploration more accessible, by providing access to older published ones and slowly attempting to digitalize others. Currently focused on the Franklin Expedition and its crew, eventually we hope broaden our view to more of the 19th century. - James Fitzjames – In memory of the man, the myth, the legend
Fabiënne Tetteroo.
A comprehensive site on the life of James Fitzjames, commander of HMS Erebus on Franklin's last expedition. - James Fitzjames: The Mystery Man of the Franklin Expedition (archive.org)
William Battersby.
Website for the book of the same name by William Battersby. Archived version, originally at www.jamesfitzjames.net. - The Cold Boys Fandom Hub
Dedicated to The Terror (TV serial by AMC). It states to be a central resource for fans of The Terror. - The Fate of Franklin
Russell Potter.
A Multimedia Museum of the Cultural Histories of Arctic Exploration. - The Last Voyage of Sir John Franklin
Google Arts and Culture
A virtual exhibition of images and documents about the Franklin expedition. - The Mysteries of the Franklin Expedition
This site contains information drawn from historical records preserved in museums, archives and government records, as well as books, journal articles, and other materials. - Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site
Parks Canada
Official page of the Erebus and Terror wrecks as "National Historic Site".
Encyclopedias
- A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849)
William Richard O'Byrne.
List of living (as of 1849) officers of the Royal Navy from lieutenant to higher. - AMC's The Terror Wiki
Encyclopedia documenting AMC's anthological series, The Terror. - Franklin Expedition Wiki
A collaborative community website about the Franklin Expedition.
Lists of sources
- A list of Franklin sources, or, what kind of a fandom inspires people to create a bibliography, for God’s sake?
Karin L. Kross. Hanging Fire
A list of resources on the Franklin expedition and The Terror series. Primary sources, blogs and fanworks, interviews, articles and books. - Franklin Expedition Resources (The Cold Boys Fandom Hub)
The Cold Boys Fandom Hub
New articles by RSS
Visions of the North
Repost: Christmas in the Frozen Regions
25. 12. 2022 11:00:00
Potential written material found on HMS Erebus
19. 12. 2022 15:12:00
25. 11. 2022 19:31:00
A look ahead to events for May We Be Spared ...
10. 08. 2022 14:39:00
16. 06. 2022 22:00:00
Finger-Post
06. 11. 2022 15:20:30
The Mystery of the Missing Goodsir Organ
18. 09. 2022 10:30:10
A Franklin Expedition guide to Edinburgh
11. 09. 2022 14:50:59
“Carried for long, or to the last” – Franklin relics and the Goodsir family
20. 04. 2022 15:09:46
Through a land so wild: A Franklin Expedition guide to Kensal Green Cemetery
03. 06. 2021 12:05:43
the thousandth part
Heavy Sailing: Three Lives of a Story
17. 12. 2022 16:30:00
At the Opposite Side of the World
22. 10. 2022 13:00:00
The ‘Disappearance’ of Martha Crozier
18. 08. 2022 17:38:18
28. 06. 2022 11:35:46
The Heart of a Broken Timeline
27. 05. 2022 16:42:00
The Arctic Book Review
02. 01. 2023 14:48:00
27. 06. 2022 15:00:00
22. 05. 2022 23:11:00
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
30. 04. 2022 16:27:00
Franklin's Fate / No Earthly Pole
03. 06. 2021 21:06:00
Kabloonas
BURNING SHIPS IN THE COLD - THE LOSS OF THE RODGERS
21. 11. 2022 16:44:00
UNDER THE POLAR STAR, A ROMANTIC MELODRAMA
11. 05. 2022 12:01:00
VICTORY POINT CAIRN: THE SILENT WITNESS
05. 01. 2022 10:34:00
WILLIAM KENEDY SEARCHING EXPEDITION
28. 12. 2021 22:59:00
THE THREE LOST MEN FROM McCLINTOCK EXPEDITION
22. 12. 2021 22:51:00
Arctonauts
Service Record of Robert Thomas
22. 01. 2023 15:41:05
Service Record of Henry T. D. Le Vesconte
22. 01. 2023 15:41:05
Service Record of Frederick Hornby
22. 01. 2023 15:41:05
Service Record of George Henry Hodgson
22. 01. 2023 15:41:05
Service Record of James Walter Fairholme
22. 01. 2023 15:41:05
All well
“Antarctic Lovebirds” – the untold story of Harry Pennell & Edward Atkinson
24. 01. 2023 02:39:36
07. 12. 2022 21:44:08
G. Julian Harney & the 1857 Franklin Search
14. 07. 2022 22:22:15
Sir Clements Markham’s Romance – Part 2
29. 01. 2022 04:36:40
Sir Clements Markham’s Romance – Part 1
07. 12. 2021 04:14:27
Erebus & Terror Files
Stephan Goldner and the Billion Dollar Corporation
23. 11. 2022 15:20:00
May we be Spared: Four talks in eight days.
09. 11. 2022 12:51:00
May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth - The voyage begins!
07. 09. 2022 12:15:00
Three visits to 137 Houndsditch
06. 12. 2020 20:23:00
The other "137 Houndsditch" - Stephan Goldner's Factory revealed.
24. 11. 2020 18:47:00
Lauren Triola Writes
01. 01. 2023 21:22:11
My Latest Project: Experiment 31E
05. 10. 2022 12:00:00
01. 01. 2022 20:08:59
10. 12. 2021 15:00:00
Daily Flash Fiction Challenge: Looking Back
10. 11. 2021 21:59:01
In Search of Franklin
16. 11. 2019 16:00:00
Arctic Expeditions - The Doomed Franklin Mission of 1845
17. 01. 2019 17:59:00
2012 Expedition to King William Island
29. 07. 2012 03:27:00
09. 07. 2012 01:51:00
Baymaud (Maud) Update - Looks like "C'est la vie"
08. 07. 2012 05:20:00
Building HMS Terror
A MAN-HAULED BOAT SLEDGE FROM HMS TERROR
07. 01. 2019 22:41:00
10. 05. 2018 22:25:00
22. 04. 2018 00:11:00
THE GREAT PLANKING OF 2017 (Part 2)
03. 01. 2018 21:59:00
THE GREAT PLANKING OF 2017 (Part 1)
19. 11. 2017 13:04:00
Captain of Terror
"Death in the Ice" - my good-bye to the exhibition
26. 09. 2019 20:36:00
Edward Parry and the birth of the Arctic Thespian
13. 10. 2017 21:59:00
07. 08. 2017 18:23:00
Finding of HMS Terror confirmed
26. 09. 2016 19:23:00
14. 09. 2016 16:17:00
70 North Beset
Maps, Chains, and Cairns: The Historical Accuracy of AMC’s The Terror
03. 12. 2018 19:10:19
The Victory Point Medicine Chest, Part II: Clues and further mysteries
30. 09. 2018 17:48:25
The Victory Point Medicine Chest
17. 09. 2018 21:45:22
13. 09. 2018 21:02:32
Starvation Cove
Accounting For The 105 Survivors
13. 01. 2018 17:45:00
How Many Boats Did Franklin's Men Take?
16. 12. 2017 18:00:00
Supunger's Victory Point Grave and Tomb
25. 10. 2017 17:22:00
09. 03. 2015 20:00:00
27. 08. 2012 16:43:00
Franklin's Ghost
Russell Potter and John Geiger
13. 09. 2016 20:34:00
Mysterious Inuit tale leads researchers to the 168-year-old wreck of the HMS Terror
13. 09. 2016 13:59:00
My interview on News Talk 770 about the finding of HMS Terror
12. 09. 2016 21:28:00
12. 09. 2016 21:17:00
01. 10. 2014 18:53:00
Franklinova expedice
Wiki o Franklinově expedici na Nový rok v novém hávu
01. 01. 2022 19:40:00
16. 08. 2020 15:14:00
Nová verze mapy Franklinovy expedice k testování
21. 02. 2020 23:15:00
„Death in the ice“ – franklinovská výstava v Greenwichi
03. 07. 2018 16:22:00
Letošní sraz zájemců o Franklinovu expedici
17. 02. 2018 12:20:00