In 1819 an expedition set out from England in the hopes of mapping coastline in the remote northern stretch of Canada. What followed was a horrific bungle, more suited to the pages of a paperback thriller than actual history.
This is the story of the Coppermine Expedition
Sources:
Franklin Overland: https://franklinoverland.ca/
Sir John Franklin: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-22
Fergus Fleming: Barrow's Boys (Chapter: The Man who ate his Boots)
Peter Steele: The Man who Mapped the Arctic
Ken McGoogan: Dead Reckoning
