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A fan of AMC’s The Terror helped identify real-life crew member of doomed expedition
This is how fandom’s power should be used.
In a paper published in The Journal of Archeological Science: Reports, a team of anthropologists from the University of Waterloo wrote that they used DNA testing from a living descendent to identify the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, one of the real crew members of the doomed expedition. After a year of remaining icebound, the two ships were abandoned, with the crew attempting to return to civilization by walking across sea ice and islands sparsely inhabited by indigenous groups, but they were never seen or heard from again. Sincere thanks are extended to Fabiënne Tetteroo for generously sharing the results of her investigations of Fitzjames’ family history and for her efforts to identify possible candidates for our Franklin expedition DNA research.
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