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Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land f…
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Born 16 April 1786 · Died 11 June 1847 · Q2655
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A special service of Thanksgiving was held in the chapel at the Royal Naval College to accompany the rededication of the national monument to Sir John Franklin
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More than 140 years after his report, Dr
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of the ability of poliomyelitis viruses to grow in cultures of various types of tissue.
And a museum, credited to the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1843 under the leadership of her husband
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The Scottish explorer John Rae, while surveying the Boothia Peninsula for the Hudson's Bay Company, discovered the true fate of the Franklin party from talking to Inuit hunters
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Died 1847-06-11.
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Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847
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Career landmark: Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1837–1843).
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (1829).
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Awarded Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations (1829).
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Left for his second Canadian and third Arctic expedition, the Mackenzie River expedition
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1823).
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After returning to England, Franklin married the poet Eleanor Anne Porden
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Franklin was chosen to lead the Coppermine expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River
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On a journey from London to Spitzbergen, now Svalbard
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Born 1786-04-16.
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