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English: Map of the west coast of King William Island depicting confirmed remains of Franklin's Lost Expedition (Note that the location where the ships were abandoned and the site of Victory Point is to a certain extent speculative, see Cyriax 1952.)
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  • Ship Remains: Parks Canada: "Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site: Superintendent's order", 2019-05-27, https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/info/plan
  • Sites of Human Remains:
    • "Confirmed Sites" from: Stenton, Douglas R. (30 October 2018). "Finding the dead: bodies, bones and burials from the 1845 Franklin northwest passage Expedition". Polar Record. 54 (3): 197–212. doi:10.1017/S0032247418000359
    • Erebus Bay Locations from: Stenton, Douglas; Keenleyside, A.; Fratpetro, S.; Park, R. (2017). "DNA analysis of human skeletal remains from the 1845 Franklin expedition". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 16: 409–419. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.03.041
  • Victory Point and ship abandonment site: Cyriax, R. J. (1952). The position of Victory Point, King William Island. Polar Record, 6(44), 496-507.
  • Base Map: Statistics Canada: Boundary Files (Province and Territory), 2016 Census. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 92-160-X.

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