tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post4910465818284997016..comments2022-06-18T04:28:12.041+01:00Comments on Hidden Tracks: Early news of an exciting possible new discovery of Franklin Expedition remainsWilliam Battersbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00452863778733148002noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post-45353089233423104512010-09-19T01:40:40.264+01:002010-09-19T01:40:40.264+01:00William, the Independent has now picked up this st...William, the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/has-tv-adventurer-found-franklins-lost-arctic-expedition-2083290.html" rel="nofollow">Independent</a> has now picked up this story.Russell Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post-43010650050033598302010-09-13T19:24:54.995+01:002010-09-13T19:24:54.995+01:00Hi! I'm making a drawing of Bear and the Artic...Hi! I'm making a drawing of Bear and the Artic Wolf's journey through the NW Passage. Can you help me with it? I need more info./photos to see to coplete my drawing to make it look the best that I can. Like... what does Jonesy Island look like? What do the french man and dog look like? I hope to give my drawing to the NW Passage team as a gift. I'm just a fan and I appreciate their adventure and how they are helping a charity to give clean water to children, making global warming known, etc.! I've been following their adventure on the FCP NW passage website. I hope you can help. Thank you. You can contact me on facebook at angel etz Thanks! Aloha, angelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post-40986683911897996782010-09-13T12:42:10.936+01:002010-09-13T12:42:10.936+01:00Th find I'd mentioned was on an expedition lea...Th find I'd mentioned was on an expedition lead by Cambridge professor Peter Wadhams; there is a brief account of it in Wadhams, P., and M.P. Casarini. 1994. Signs of life. Geographical Magazine 66 (4): 26-27.Russell Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post-23588003481602248702010-09-12T22:04:16.809+01:002010-09-12T22:04:16.809+01:00I was thinking mainly of the Franklin-era whaleboa...I was thinking mainly of the Franklin-era whaleboat found by Inuit hunters on the eastern coast of Prince of Wales Island and later visited by Wayne Davidson, a Franklin buff who has worked for many years at the weather station at Resolute Bay. He used to have some photos of it at his website, "Sir John Franklin Was Here!" but visiting there lately I don't seem to see them -- his site is eclectic and a bit disorganized, much as is Wayne himself. At any rate, the boat was in a ruined condition, but the keel-piece resembled in shape that of the Franklin whaleboat found by McClintock. Somewhere in my files I have a xerox of an article about this boat -- I'll see if I can track it down and send it along -- I don't recall any graves being mentioned near that site, though I believe there might have been stones which suggested a tent, though I'm not sure of what kind (European tents were square; round tent-rings suggest a <i>tupik</i>). Did these latter-day explorers take any photos, I wonder?Russell Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post-49922254933768805362010-09-12T20:59:39.548+01:002010-09-12T20:59:39.548+01:00Hi Russell,
Just a thought, but what 'other f...Hi Russell,<br /><br />Just a thought, but what 'other finds' are you thinking of?<br /><br />WilliamWilliam Battersbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00452863778733148002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042030196992977344.post-70917656363068709202010-09-12T15:35:41.456+01:002010-09-12T15:35:41.456+01:00This certainly sounds like a promising discovery! ...This certainly sounds like a promising discovery! But there aren't really any "uncharted waters" (in the sense that there are no maps of them), though they may perhaps not be accurate navigational charts. And I don't think you can name islands anymore without the agreement of the Nunavut Territorial Government and the Federal Government of Canada!<br /><br />Still, this would be consistent with other finds that suggest that one group of Franklin survivors may have headed up along the coast of Peel Inlet, which in fact would have brought them in contact with searchers, had they only been there at the right moment. Perhaps they came too soon, and this camp marks the end of the trail ...Russell Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.com