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New DNA analysis has identified four of the crew from the doomed Franklin expedition, bringing the total to six of 129 crew members—and answering the mystery around the identity of one body found about 80 miles away.


The new research also solved an enduring mystery of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus and Terror.

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