Just watched a fascinating doco on PBS on Sir John Franklin's ill fated exploration looking for the North West Passage and what is likely to have happened to members of the expedition: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arctic/. Ok, if you can't be bothered reading, they hit a particularly cold spot of weather, got their ships trapped in the ice for a couple of years, tried to walk out, tried a bit of 'the last resort' foodwise, didn't make it, last four documented as still trying to walk out six years later, he died much earlier. The PBS / Nova version is much more interesting!
For non-Tasmanians, he was Governor of Tasmania from 1836 - 1843 and many links to his rule remain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin.
Malcolm
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