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Description: | A relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. Two eye piece lens caps of sextant tubes found by Lieutenant W.R. Hobson at an abandoned camp site at Cape Felix, King William Island on 25 May 1859. They were collected by the McClintock Search Expedition 1857-59. The smaller cap screws in and has clear glass, the larger screws over and has black glass.
The camp site was occupied by about twelve officers and men from the Franklin expedition during the summer of 1847; they lived in three small tents. They were probably engaged in surveying, scientific work or hunting while the expeditions ships remained trapped in the ice. The site was apparently abandoned in a hurry; Hobson found the tents flattened with blankets and bear skins underneath. They had been held up by boarding pikes, the heads of which had been twisted off their poles. Hobson thought the staffs had been used for firewood. He concluded that, as the party had left behind so much of their equipment, they had probably gone back to the ships.
caption: Two sextant eyepieces | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | sextant eyepieces Sextant William Robert McClintock Expedition Fox 1855 Portsmouth Francis Leopold Hobson Franklin Royal Naval Museum John McClintock | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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