Arctic Expeditions of John Franklin

In 1845, a British expedition led by the experienced polar explorer Sir John Franklin set out to find the Northwest Passage - a sea route through the Arctic Ocean along the northern coast of North America through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The expedition consisted of two ships, and it was tasked with exploring a small area of the Canadian Arctic.
Franklin's fleet reached Baffin Bay. It was there in early August 1845 that the ships were seen for the last time. More than fifty unsuccessful attempts were made to ascertain their fate. The disappearance of Franklin's ships became the largest Arctic failure in history.
This book tells the story of the expedition, its search, and the traces found by the 1930s.
This book was first published in 1037 under the editorial supervision of the prominent Arctic researcher N. N. Urvancev by the Glavsevmorput publishing house in the series "Polar Library." It was the first similar account in Russian about the polar explorers of the North American continent, gathering all available materials at that time both about Franklin's expedition and the efforts that were made to find its traces.