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Petty Officer John Shaw Torrington (1825 — 1 January 1846) was an explorer and Royal Navy stoker.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Torrington (1825 - 1846) - Find A Grave Memorial )〕 He was part of an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, but died early in the trip and was buried on Beechey Island. His preserved body was exhumed in 1984, to try to determine the cause of death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Franklin Expedition: Featured Mummy )〕 It was the best preserved example of a corpse since the ancient Tollund Man which was found in the 1950s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civilization.ca - Scholars - Archaeological Discovery in Organic Terrain in Canada ) 〕 == The Northwest Passage expedition == Torrington was a part of Sir John Franklin's final expedition to find the Northwest Passage, a sea route to Asia, via the northern edge of North America. They set off from Greenhithe, England in two ships, the HMS ''Terror'' and HMS ''Erebus'', on 19 May 1845. The trip was expected to last about three years, so the ships were packed with provisions which included more than 136,000 pounds of flour, 3,684 gallons of high-proof alcohol and 33,000 pounds of tinned meat, soup and vegetables.〔PBS, NOVA (Passage http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arctic/provisions.html )〕 However, after late July no one heard from or saw the crew again.〔
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