Grab your parkas and your tainted canned meat, this episode Clara and Sabrina are voyaging into the Arctic abyss! We’re hopping aboard Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition through the Northwest Passage. When the ships got hopelessly stuck in the ice, everyone aboard was slowly overcome by bone-chilling cold, hunger, and desperation. We’ll discuss theories on why the crew made so many bizarre decisions, and solve the mystery that was never actually a mystery, but was “solved” over 150 years later, no thanks to colonial arrogance. If you’re drawn in by the allure of the Arctic Archipelago, The Franklin Expedition is waiting for you, although it certainly isn’t going anywhere either way…

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Wikipedia - Franklin's lost expedition 

Discovering The Arctic - The Northwest Passage – the Arctic Grail

Royal Museums Greenwich - What happened to HMS Erebus and Terror?

Canadian History Ehx - The Inuit and the Franklin Expedition 

New York Times - Artifacts of a Doomed Expedition

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History.com - What Happened to the Doomed Franklin Expedition? These Are the Clues

Fandom - Timeline of the Franklin Expedition

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Wikipedia - Northwest Passage

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