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The tooth belonged to James Fitzjames, captain of HMS Erebus, which had departed England in 1845 with another ship, HMS Terror, to explore the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. Their ...
The remains of one of the men on who died during the doomed Franklin Expedition has finally been identified. Commander James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus has become only the second body identified ...
The remains of James Fitzjames, a senior officer who took part in Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to the Northwest Passage, showed signs of having been cannibalized, a new study said.
The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain James Fitzjames. The fan, also a naval historian, helped anthropologists identify the remains of Captain ...
When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the Arctic, he and his crew didn’t know the harrowing fate ahead of them ...
Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive.
Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.
The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of Captain James Fitzjames.
The remains of one of the men on who died during the doomed Franklin Expedition has finally been identified. Commander James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus has become only the second body identified ...
When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin Northwest Passage expedition to the Arctic, he and his crew didn’t know the harrowing fate ahead of them ...