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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 ...
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]
Shipwreck experts found Ernest Shackleton’s last vessel on the ocean floor 62 years after its sinking. The polar explorer died aboard the vessel over a century ago.
The wooden ship had not been seen since it went down in the Weddell Sea in 1915.
The captain-turned-pirate sank the stolen ship 170 years ago, but the wreckage remained lost until now, experts said. Sunken ship of the only slave trader executed in US may have been found off Brazil
The ship sailed to the South China Sea and participated in the First Opium War. The war ended with the Treaty of Nanking , signed on board the Cornwallis in 1842. When Hoar returned to England he was rated as able seaman aboard HMS St. Vincent , which at the time was a depot vessel in Portsmouth Harbour . [ 1 ]