From Cape Felix to Cape Maria louisa

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Cape Felix

Explorers:

McClintoch and Hobson 1858-58,Schwatka and Gilter 1878-79, Burwash 1930,Larsen 1949, Coleman and Holmberg 1965, Projet Franklin 1967, Bob Pilot 1971, Trafton 1989, Woodman 1995, Tom Gross

See-Pung-er testimony

Human Skull (Larsen)

Human skull found half mile inland west side of Cape Felix

Trafton Expedition The Mariner's Mirror 1991;Steffen J Trafton

Woodman; P.91

Pictures:

http://visionsnorth.blogspot.ca/2015/09/franklin-searcher-of-month-henry-larsen.html


 

Franklin Expedition Summer Camp 1847 (Cairn McClintock and S) :

Schwatka and Gilder 1879 :(Torn down cairn and canvas)

South of Cape Feklix; located by Burwash and Finnie in 1930, by Larsen in 1949, Pilot 1971, Traftin 19889,Tom Gross 2013

 Related documentation:

woodman page 87-88, 90

Strangers Among Us By David C. Woodman p.120 (Sun-Bleached paper)

Gillian Hutchinson p.132

Trafton Expedition The Mariner's Mirror 1991.

Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search byRussell Potter : P.144

Pictures:

Trafton Expedition The Mariner's Mirror 1991.

 

Cairn McC:


 

Cairn C1 (Built by Franklin Expedition):

Schwatka (7 feet high)

woodman P.88

From Trafton Expedition The Mariner's Mirror 1991

o,8 miles inland-1,7 miles south of Cape Felix

Cairn (C1 in conjucture with C2) supposed to be used to calculate the drift of the ships beset in ice

Staffon (1989)

Cairn C2 (Schwatka message) :

Schwatka discovered this cairn the 5th july 1879

From Trafton Expedition The Mariner's Mirror 1991.

3,2 miles inland.

The Schwatka report was found under a large rock in a big glass bottle

Pictures:

Trafton Expedition The Mariner's Mirror 1991

Relics cached by eskimos: