History's Greatest Mysteries
The Franklin Expedition
Season 6 Episode 2
The Franklin Expedition, a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 intending to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The mission set sail into a labyrinth of ice and was never heard from again
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Laurence Fishburne
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