The final days of the Franklin expedition: new skeletal evidence

• Main Authors: Anne Keenleyside, Margaret Bertulli, Henry C. Fricke
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Arctic; Buttons; Guillaume; King William Island; William Island; Arctique*; inuit
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.492.2410; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-1-36.pdf

ABSTRACT. In 1992, a previously unrecorded site of Sir John Franklin’s last expedition (1845 –1848) was discovered on King William Island in the central Canadian Arctic. Artifacts recovered from the site included iron and copper nails, glass, a clay pipe fragment, pieces of fabric and shoe leather,...