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The Erebus , the Terror and the North‐West Passage: Did lead really poison Franklin's lost expedition?
Author(s) -
Millar Keith,
Bowman Adrian,
Battersby William
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00735.x
Subject(s) - history , oceanography , variation (astronomy) , lead (geology) , environmental ethics , geology , philosophy , paleontology , physics , astrophysics
The Franklin expedition of 1845 tried to find the North‐West Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It disappeared into the ice. A classic example of historical detective work seemed to explain its fate – but is it plausible? Keith Millar, Adrian Bowman and William Battersby reanalyse variation in the evidence and evidence for variation.