History Uncovered Podcast Episode 3: The Lost Franklin Expedition And The Ice Mummies Left Behind More than a century after two British ships vanished during their quest to find the Northwest Passage, a series of icy corpses discovered on a remote Canadian island revealed the fate of the missing crews. The Erebus was found at the bottom of the eastern portion of Queen Maud Gulf, west of O’Reilly Island, and the Terror was discovered by the Arctic Research Foundation. According to The Telegraph, the vessel sunk in 1905 during the Battle of Tsushima, which was the final defeat of the Russian Navy in the Russo-Japanese War.
Author: Marco Margaritoff
Published at: 2025-08-23 20:00:35
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