Archaeologists recovered the HMS Erebus in 2014, centuries after the ship sank and its case went cold. New artifacts are sharing its secrets.

HMS Erebus took part in the Ross expedition of 1839-1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait Expedition ...

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AMC’s “The Terror” tells the story of the Franklin Expedition, an 1840s attempt by the British Navy to find an Arctic passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The show tells a ...

HMS Erebus was one of two ships that went missing in the Canadian Arctic with the loss of Franklin and his entire 128-strong crew after becoming trapped in ice, probably in 1846.

In 2007, Dan Simmons published The Terror, a novel based on true events that also serves as the basis for the AMC series of the same name.However, even Simmons at that time did not know everything ...

The Erebus — which shares a name with a part of Hades in Greek mythology — and another unfortunately-named ship, the HMS Terror, made it to Baffin Bay near Greenland.

The expedition’s two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England in May 1845 but never reached the Pacific Ocean via the Arctic. The ships were stranded in the Victoria Strait’s ice in ...

Abandoned 170 years ago, the HMS Erebus was only rediscovered in the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic in 2014. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Live Science. Search.

Editor’s Note: The HMS Terror, the second ship from the doomed polar expedition described by John Geiger in this interview, was finally located on September 3.The ship was found not far from its ...

It is in fact the HMS Erebus," he said in Parliament, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The ship from the 19th century expedition was found in Nunavut — Canada's northernmost territory.

The Erebus was discovered in 2014, located in the Queen Maud Gulf south of Canada’s King William Island, a public-private partnership led by Parks Canada, country’s national parks service.Two ...