EXPLORER’S PLANS.
SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN’S LOG. Received August 5, 12.15 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 4. Mr Francis Pease, a young British explorer, announces that he will make a second attempt in October to find Sir John Franklin’s log book. Alone, he will try and cross hundreds of miles of ice and snow and wrest from the Arctic the ninety-year secret. Mr Pease sledged 11,000 miles in 1935 in an effort to penetrate to King William Island, where Franklin is buried, but an accident ended the venture when he was 400 miles from his objective. He says that on the journey he met an old Eskimo whose father had seen the body taken ashore from Franklin’s ship.
Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) took part between 1818 and 1827 in three Arctic expeTiitions, which won him a knighthood. Iri May, 1845, ho set out to explore the Northwest Passage and did not return. In Juno, 1859, at Point Victory, was found a record with proof that lie had discovered the North-west Passage and had died on June 11, 1847.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 10
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175EXPLORER’S PLANS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 210, 5 August 1937, Page 10
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