Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
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Robert Johns
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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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Amelia Edwards
Egyptologist, novelist, journalist, traveller. Born Colebrook Row, Islington. A successful novelist, her first visit to Egypt in 1873 caused her to change the course of her life. The destruction of...
The Sailing of the Mayflower
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Henry the Navigator
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Sir Henry Morton Stanley
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