Canada Seeks Historic Shipwrecks

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A Canadian team is to search for two ships lost in an 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The British ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were trapped in the Arctic ice as Sir John Franklin sought a northern route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He and his 128 crew died - although their exact fate remains a mystery - and the ships were never found.

Sought by explorers for centuries as a possible trade route, it was first navigated by Roald Amundsen in 1903-1906. The Arctic pack ice prevents regular marine shipping throughout the year, but climate change is reducing the pack ice, and this Arctic shrinkage may eventually make the waterways more navigable. This and the contested sovereignty claims over the waters may complicate future shipping through the region. The Canadian government considers the Northwestern Passages part of Canadian Internal Waters.

Will they find any pieces of the shipwrecks by 2010?

inspired by: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h...

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