What happened on HMS Terror? Divers plan return to Franklin wrecks
by Robin McKie and Vanessa Thorpe from Science | The Guardian on (#5FABE)
Scientists hope that ice will give up more clues to the fate of the 1845 Arctic expedition to find the Northwest Passage
It remains one of the greatest mysteries of naval exploration. What doomed John Franklin's 1845 attempt to sail the Northwest Passage, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in his ships Erebus and Terror?
The expedition claimed the lives of all 129 men and has gripped the public's imagination for the past century and a half. Now Canadian researchers are facing a crucial decision on whether to relaunch attempts to find new clues about the ships' fate.
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