Sir John Franklin

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Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin, an English Royal Navy officer and fearless explorer of the icy Arctic realm, embarked on a perilous journey on April 16th, 1786. With unyielding determination, he served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's Land, a vast and unforgiving territory then known as no Tasmania, from 1837 to 1843. Franklin's final expedition, an audacious attempt to chart and navigate the treacherous Northwest Passage in Canada's harsh Arctic environment, would ultimately seal his fate. The ice-entombed ships were abandoned, and his entire crew succumbed to a ghastly demise: starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning, and scurvy.