A new DNA analysis has identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition in Canada more than 175 years ago.
Fitzjames was part of an expedition led by Sir John Franklin that set out in 1845 from England with 129 men on two ships: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The expedition aimed to navigate the Northwest Passage, an Arctic ship route that links the Atlantic with the Pacific. But both ships became trapped in ice, and the entire crew died.
