This fascinating essay offers a bold new theory on the fate of Sir John Franklin, the British naval officer who disappeared in the Arctic in 1845 while searching for the fabled Northwest Passage. Written by August Heinrich Petermann, a noted German geographer and cartographer, it proposes a novel explanation for the whereabouts of Franklin's lost ships, based on an analysis of ocean currents and climatological data. This work has been selected...
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