Discovery of one of Sir John Franklin's ships

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Barr, William
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Northwest Passage; Great Slave Lake; King William Island; William Island; Fort Resolution; Victoria Strait; Arctic Research Foundation; Back River; Northwest passage; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000758; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247414000758

In the summer of 2014 a major search was mounted in the Canadian Arctic for H.M.S. Erebus and Terror , the ships of Sir John Franklin's expedition, the aim of which was to make a transit of the northwest passage. Beset in the ice to the northwest of King William Island in the summer of 1846, th...