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As Dundalk Native, Dr Niamh Shaw sets off on another adventure, this time to the Arctic from July 7th - 23rd for an ...
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Today in History for July 25: ...
Science communicator Dr Niamh Shaw sets off on Monday 7 July on a voyage following that of Leopold McClintock, who was known ...
These buttons from the 1850s were left during the search for the lost Franklin expedition. The buttons would guide survivors ...
A rare Arctic rescue button was sold at auction on Tuesday for £6,000, which was 10 times its pre sale estimate. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks, of Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood in Exeter, said ...
A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many of its officers were the first to fall.
By zeroing in on Franklin’s earlier journey, one generally treated as a footnote or background story in most other books about the lost expedition, he makes the case that the men who sailed in ...