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[ ] it appeared from these studies that a combination of bad weather, years locked in ice, poisoned food, botulism , starvation, and disease including scurvy, had killed everyone in the franklin party. in october , marine archaeologist robert grenier outlined recent discoveries of sheet metal and copper
discovering another ship floating in fresh ice in a cove. the ship, probably the terror, was very neat and orderly, but the inuit descended into the darkness of the hull with their seal-oil lamps, where they found a tall dead man in an inner cabin. grenier believes it was there they recovered the copper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Franklin