John Franklin
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"Sir John Franklin" Royal Guelphic Order/KCH Royal Geographical Society/FRGS Royal Navy/RN was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of the Arctic. Franklin also served as Governor of Tasmania/Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) from 1837 to 1843. He disappeared on Franklin's lost expedition/his last expedition, attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The icebound ships were abandoned and the entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy.

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