The Franklin Expedition Relics and Remains Found at Qavdlunaarsiorfik, Adelaide Peninsula, 1923 and 1924
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Among the many material traces of Sir John Franklin’s disastrous 1845 Arctic expedition is a skull found on the Adelaide Peninsula in the early twentieth century by a fur trader, Peter Norberg. A short 1928 article, which identifies the skull as being that of a young European male, is almost the only published source on Norberg’s discovery. Archival documents reveal more about the date and other circumstances of the find. They also raise questions about exactly where Norberg picked up the skull. The 1928 article names Thunder Cove, but Norberg’s own brief, unpublished account states that it was at a spot he had visited in 1923 with the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen. Local Inuit called this place Qavdlunaarsiorfik. Rasmussen’s diary and publications do not give the precise location of Qavdlunaarsiorfik, but it was certainly not Thunder Cove. Some Arctic historians believe that it was near Starvation Cove, one of the most famous Franklin sites. The evidence considered in this article strongly suggests that Qavdlunaarsiorfik was in Barrow Inlet, an area where no other significant searches have ever been made.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".