What really happened to John and Jane Franklin and why was indigenous knowledge overlooked?
Publisher |
ABC Podcasts
Media Type |
audio
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Publication Date |
Apr 11, 2024
Episode Duration |
00:36:21

In 2014 and 2016, two shipwrecks were found which answered a lengthy mystery – what happened to Sir John Franklin’s North-West Passage expedition, which had been missing since 1845? The wrecks were found thanks to Inuit testimony, and now people are wondering why it took so long for that local knowledge to be trusted. 

Guest: Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, author of “Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge - The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth” published by Bloomsbury Academic press

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