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FRANKLIN'S LOST EXPEDITION

Directed by Peter Bates, Franklin's Lost Expedition is an intriguing documentary airing on Thursday 24 January 2008 @ 9.35pm on ABC and looking at one of the greatest mysteries in the history of exploration.

150 years ago British explorer John Franklin sailed into the Arctic in the mid 19th century in search of a Northwest Passage and never came back. Two ships and 129 men vanished without a trace. Their disappearance spawned the greatest manhunt ever mounted and the full story remains a mystery that has confounded explorers, historians and Franklin-searchers ever since.

Franklin's Lost Expedition brings together a team of scientists and explorers determined to solve the Franklin mystery. Forensic researchers have found skeletons of white men littered across the arctic wasteland, which proved Franklin and his crew were not cannibalised - others claim botulism or lead poisoning killed them. After collecting data on their earlier Arctic expeditions, the team believe they have the answers to this mystery in their grasp.

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