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What new research shows about a 19th-century voyage gone wrong

New research shines a light on the lost Franklin Expedition, a 19th-century voyage to the Canadian Arctic gone awry.

NPR’s Henry Larson reports.

Editor’s note: An updated version of this story clarifies that “Doug Stenton is an archeologist in Alberta, Canada who works for the University of Waterloo.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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