![]() ![]() Oral reports by local Inuit that some of the crew members resorted to cannibalism were at least somewhat supported by forensic evidence of cut marks on the skeletal remains of crew members found on King William Island during the late 20th century. Subsequent expeditions up until the late 1980s, including autopsies of crew members, revealed that their canned rations may have been tainted by both lead and botulism. Both ships had become icebound and were abandoned by their crews, all of whom died of exposure and starvation while trying to trek overland to Fort Resolution, a Hudson's Bay Company outpost 970 km (600 mi) to the southwest. Terror & Erebus is a chamber opera for six singers and percussion quartet by Canadian composer Cecilia Livingston, to premiere in 2023. The disappearance of the Franklin expedition set off a massive search effort in the Arctic and the broad circumstances of the expedition's fate were revealed during a series of expeditions between 18. ![]() The mission of Parks Canada’s underwater archaeologists is to work collaboratively with Inuit to study these shipwrecks lost in Arctic waters for over 170 years. The expedition sailed from Greenhithe, Kent, on, and the ships were last seen entering Baffin Bay in August 1845. The discovery of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror provides an exceptional opportunity to shed light on the mystery surrounding the Franklin expedition. She was converted into a polar exploration ship two decades later, and participated in George Back's Arctic expedition of 1836–1837, the successful Ross expedition to the Antarctic of 1839 to 1843, and Sir John Franklin's ill-fated attempt to force the Northwest Passage in 1845, during which she was lost with all hands along with HMS Erebus. She participated in several battles of the War of 1812, including the Battle of Baltimore with the bombardment of Fort McHenry. Learn about the role of Inuit knowledge in the discoveries of the shipwrecks from Sir John Franklin’s legendary 1845 expedition. HMS Terror was a specialised warship and a newly developed bomb vessel constructed for the Royal Navy in 1813. The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site is the first national historic site to be jointly managed by Inuit and Parks Canada. ![]()
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