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Hundreds of underwater treasures found in 180 year old Erebus shipwreck as explorers face race against time
Archaeologists have found hundreds of preserved artefacts within the remnants of the HMS Erebus nearly two centuries after it sank in Arctic Canada. Pistols, sealed bottles of medicine, fishing ...
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Grim Evidence from the Arctic
The 134 men aboard the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which sailed from England in May 1845 under the leadership of Captain John Franklin, were equipped with seemingly ample provisions and state ...
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Canada to keep Franklin Expedition wrecks
BBC's Alpa Patel: "the mission set sail in high spirits and hope but contact was lost two years later" The United Kingdom is gifting two fabled British explorer shipwrecks to Canada. HMS Erebus ...