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John Morfin

Categories: Exploring, Tragedy

John Morfin

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

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John Morfin

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John Franklin statue

{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...

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John Handford

John Handford

Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

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1 memorial
Bungaree

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John Hanning Speke

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1 memorial
Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley

Traveller and ethnologist. Born Islington as Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Only after the death of her parents could she fulfil her aspirations of travel. Her first book, "Travels in West Africa", publi...

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1 memorial