The Franklin Expedition Solved with Science

For 170 years, Inuit communities knew exactly where the Franklin Expedition ships were.

They had detailed oral histories. They provided specific locations. They described what happened to the crew. They even drew maps.

For 170 years, Western searchers ignored them. Then in 2014, researchers found the HMS Erebus exactly where Inuit knowledge said it would be. Again in 2016, the same happened when they finally found the HMS Terror. An Inuit hunter named Sammy Kogvik had literally seen one of the