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1845. gada 9. jūlijā divus mēnešus pēc izbraukšanas no Grīnhitas, Lielbritānijā, policijas virsnieks Džons Gregorijs uzrakstīja vēstuli savai sievai no Grenlandes, kurā viņš pirmo reizi aprakstīja vaļus un aisbergus, vēsta laikraksts The New York Times .
Gregorijs, kurš pirms tam nebija devies jūrā, atradās uz kuģa H.M.S. Erebus - viens no diviem kuģiem, kurš sera Džona Franklina vadībā 1845. gadā devās ekspedīcijā izpētīt teiksmaino Ziemeļrietumu pāreju, kas ir jūras ceļš cauri Kanādas Arktiskajam arhipelāgam un tā mērķis bija tirdzniecības ceļš ar Āziju.
DNA, Genealogy IDs First Member of 1845 Franklin Expedition
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THUNDER BAY - On July 9, 1845, Warrant Officer John Gregory, an engineer aboard HMS Erebus, sent a letter from Greenland to his wife Hannah before sailing off with the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into the Canadian Arctic and into an enduring historical mystery.
For 176 years that letter was the last Gregory’s descendants had known about his journey, but now they have an ending to his story, as his remains have become the first from the expedition to be identified genetically with the help of researchers at Lakehead University’s Paleo-DNA Lab.
“Everybody wants to know what happened. That’s the big question,” said Stephen Fratpietro, technical manager at the Centre for Analytical Services Paleo-DNA Laboratory.
First member of Britain s doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition has been identified: DNA samples reveal the face of Warrant Officer John Gregory, one of the crew forced to turn to cannibalism before perishing after his ship became stuck in Arctic ice
All 129 crew members on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror of the Franklin Expedition died between 1845 and 1848
The boats got stuck in ice around King William Island and the crew were trapped in the Canadian Arctic
More than 100 survived for more than 18 months and mounted a last-ditch attempt to reach safety on foot
Everyone perished and remains of the sailors have been found scattered around the island
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