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It protects the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two ships of the last expedition of Sir John Franklin, lost in the 1840s during their search for the Northwest Passage and then re-discovered in 2014 and 2016. The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada and the local Inuit. Public access to the site is not permitted.
Ship's bell from HMS Erebus, bearing the date 1845, at the Nattilik Heritage Centre, Gjoa Haven, 2019. The wreckage of one of Franklin's ships was found on 2 September 2014 by a Parks Canada team led by Ryan Harris and Marc-André Bernier. [14] [3] On 1 October 2014, it was announced that the remains were those of Erebus. [15]
Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic and to record magnetic data to help determine whether ...
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.
The wreck of HMS Erebus from Franklin's lost expedition was discovered just west of O'Reilly Island in Queen Maud Gulf, in September 2014. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, Nancy Anilniliak , the Field Unit Superintendent of the Nunavut Field Unit, has restricted access to a rectangular area in Wilmot and Crampton Bay , to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula ...
The bay was one of a series of landmarks along the waters explored by John Franklin during his lost expedition between 1845 and 1848. [3] The bay has the same name as HMS Terror, one of the two ships of the expedition. [4]
On 8 September 2014, it was announced that the wreckage of one of Franklin's ships was found on 7 September using a remotely operated underwater vehicle recently acquired by Parks Canada. [15] [16] On 1 October 2014, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the remains were that of Erebus. [17]
HMS Erebus (1856) was a 16-gun iron screw floating battery launched in 1856 and sold in 1884. HMS Erebus was an Audacious-class battleship launched in 1864 as HMS Invincible. She was renamed HMS Erebus in 1904, HMS Fisgard II in 1906 and sank in a storm in 1914. HMS Erebus (I02) was an Erebus-class monitor launched in 1916 and broken up in 1947.