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Deposit of the Final Record
- When
- 1848
- Where
- cairn on King William Island
After abandoning the ships, Crozier and Fitzjames deposited the expedition's final formal record in a cairn on King William Island in 1848.
The note's second part is dated 25 April 1848 and was signed by Fitzjames and Crozier. It documented the abandonment of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror after being icebound for more than a year, recorded the death of Sir John Franklin on 11 June 1847, and described the survivors' plan to march towards the Back River. Fitzjames deposited the note in the cairn found by Hobson eleven years later.
Sources
- Franklin's lost expedition Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-22
- Francis Crozier Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-12
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