After 170 years of lost Arctic expedition revealed a mystery (Video)

After 170 years of lost Arctic expedition revealed a mystery (Video)

After 170 years of lost Arctic expedition revealed a mystery (Video)
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The Canadian government has announced that the Arctic is one of the most famous discovery of the nineteenth century. Missing ship. The country's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that occasion that "revealed one of the biggest secrets in Canada.

Nearly 170 years of British maritime expedition led by Sir John Franklin, tried unsuccessfully'll find the Northwest Passage, but the expedition disappeared without a trace. And only now been able to find one of the two expedition ship.

Ships' H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror disappeared in 1846. Both crew were killed. Although later on land managed to find the graves of several of the crew members and the local Inuit argued seen a sinking ship, so far unsuccessful trip goals fate was the subject of heated debate.

Now the Canadian government published the sonar images, which are likely to be seen from the ship does not break down substantially, resting on the sea bed at the King William Island. This was captured by a remote control device, of Parks Canada.

"There is no doubt that the ship is either" Erebus "or" Terror "- says cruises and boat accidents historian James Delgado, working for the Canadian National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. J. Delgado previously searched for ships in the Arctic, but the latter did not participate in the Canadian expedition, which, experts said, was preparing for a number of years.

"I think this will be one of our biggest ever archaeological discoveries of the sea," - said Mr. Delgado, wrote the book "Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage.

According to J. Delgado, J. Franklin expedition was one of the best trained and the most experienced seamen attracted tour, which was to find the Northwest Passage nineteenth century. in the middle. At that time, a waterway north of North America was seen as the holy grail of navigation, which are fast becoming the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

"Maybe it was not a trip to the moon, but it certainly looks like hell," - said the historian.

The expedition sailed from England in 1845. Along the way, reached the Canadian northern waters of the sailors agreed to the whalers. And then while waiting for the results of the world received only silence.

In later years, no party held a first rescue, then the archaeological operations, whose aim was to detect a lost expedition, or at least their tracks.

Eventually Beechey Island crew found several graves. King William Island to find a few people in the bones with cutting marks - the researchers assessed it as a sign that the survivors are likely to have been forced to cannibalism.

One of the crew members leave in was written that Mr Franklin died and the boats were abandoned, but no further information was. Inuit argued seen one ship quickly sinking under the water, but recent historians later argued that the ship probably crushed ice.

J. Delgado celebrate the discovery of non-degraded ship almost to be expected that many more will be revealed about the details of the catastrophe - it is expected that the cold water is retained on board the former journals and notes.