Another crew member of doomed 1845 Franklin expedition ID’d, with marks on his jawbone indicating cannibalism | CBC News

Another crew member of doomed 1845 Franklin expedition ID’d, with marks on his jawbone indicating cannibalism | CBC News

The skeletal remains of a crew member from Sir John Franklin's failed 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been given a name: James Fitzjames.He is only the second member of the crew to be positively identified though DNA and genealogical analyses, joining John Gregory,

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