![]() ![]() Ryan admits she did not have high hopes of being allowed to display it in Death in the Ice. However, the note had never been displayed outside England before. It is a crucial piece of evidence, and Ryan knew it would be an exciting addition to Death in the Ice. It remains the only known record detailing the crew’s plan to walk to the Back River in a last attempt to survive. Karen Ryan, explains that the Victory Point Note was found in 1859, just south of Victory Point on the northwest coast of King William Island, where Franklin’s surviving crew members came ashore after leaving their ships. Even more alarmingly, the Expedition ships, HMS Erebus and Terror, had been deserted after being trapped by sea ice for 19 months. Twenty-four people, including Franklin, were dead. The second message, added in April 1848, tells a much different story. The first, written in May 1847, confirmed that Franklin was in command of the Expedition and that all was well. The note is actually a standard preprinted Admiralty form with two handwritten messages. Though written on a single piece of paper, the document speaks volumes about the fate of Sir John Franklin and his crew. Historians suspect they suffered starvation and disease at the end, and some might have turned to cannibalism.Of the many treasures brought together for the exhibition Death in the Ice – The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition, one of the most exciting artifacts is the Victory Point Note. The fates of the other 129 men in the expedition are still an open question as well. ![]() Of course, in “The Terror,” Sir John and many of the other crew meet a worse fate as they’re hunted by a strange and deadly creature they come to know as the Tuunbaq.Īlso Read: Top 25 Best Netflix Original Series, Ranked From Great to Phenomenal (Photos) Whether he died aboard the ship, was buried at sea, or something else happened to him, though, still isn’t clear. In 1859, the British Royal Navy recovered a short note the crew left in a cairn on King William Island before abandoning the ice-locked ships in Victoria Straight in 1847, which said that Sir John died in June of that year. It’s also not clear exactly what happened to Sir John Franklin, the expedition’s commander, played by Ciaran Hinds. ![]() Evidence in the wrecks might help explain what happened to the expedition, but recovering it is a difficult process thanks to the northern weather. While locating the wrecks answered the question of where the ships wound up, they haven’t shed much more light on the mystery surrounding the fates of the Erebus and the Terror. Two years later, in 2016, the wreck of the Terror was found north of the Erebus’ location by Canadian private charitable organization the Arctic Research Foundation.Īlso Read: 34 Streaming TV Shows You Can Binge Watch on Your Snow Day (Photos) The Erebus was discovered in 2014, located in the Queen Maud Gulf south of Canada’s King William Island, a public-private partnership led by Parks Canada, country’s national parks service. In fact, the final resting places of the two ships were discovered only a few years ago. But while the crews disappeared, the wrecks of the Erebus and Terror were eventually found - in the case of the second ship, a full 170 years after it was trapped in the ice. “The Terror” gives a fictional take on what might have happened to the two ships, but nobody knows for sure. What happened to the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus has been a mystery for almost two centuries. The show tells a fictional story of what happened to the expedition, but a lot of the setup elements are true: The two ships really did vanish in the Arctic, along with their crews. AMC’s “The Terror” tells the story of the Franklin Expedition, an 1840s attempt by the British Navy to find an Arctic passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. ![]()
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