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2020-02-25, 2:55 PMTake an expedition to see the site of famous sunken ships in Canada's Arctic - Lonely Planet
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ANDREA SMITH
Lonely Planet Writer
3 JUNE 2019
Take an expedition to see the site offamous sunken ships in Canada'sArctic
Adventurers who are fans of maritime
history may enjoy the idea of taking an
expedition to see the site of two famous
sunken ships in Canada
(https://www.lonelyplanet.com/canada).
The first public visit to The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site will take
place. Image: Michelle Valberg
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Adventure Canada, in an exclusive partnership with Parks
Canada, will be guiding the first public visit to 'The Wrecks of
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site,' as part
of its Northwest Passage expeditions in 2019. In 1845, explorer
Sir John Franklin set sail from England with the two ships,
HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, but the ships and 129 crew on
board were last seen by Inuit on King William Island. Their
mysterious disappearance prompted a search that continued
unsuccessfully for nearly 170 years. In September 2014, an
expedition led by Parks Canada discovered the wreck
(/news/2018/12/18/visit-wreck-titanic) of HMS Erebus in
Nunavut (https://www.lonelyplanet.com/canada/nunavut),
and the wreck (/news/2018/10/25/worlds-oldest-intact-
shipwreck) of HMS Terror was located two years later 100km
away.
An expedition will take vistors to see the site of two famous sunken ships in Canada.Image: Bert
Jenkins
The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic
Site is the first national historic site to be co-managed by the
Inuit and Parks Canada, and public access has not been
possible up to now. While Adventure Canada secured
partnerships in 2017 and 2018 to bring guests to the Erebus
site for the first time, extreme weather and ice barrier made the
expeditions too challenging to accomplish. Those who embark
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on the forthcoming expeditions will travel on the Ocean
Endeavour ship, and will also be able to meet several of the
Gjoa Haven Guardians. who are charged with monitoring the
wreck sites. Weather-permitting, these guests may become
some of the first members of the general public to see the
Erebus wreck, through an underwater remote-controlled
camera.
The expedition will take place aboard the Ocean Endeavour ship. Image: Adventure Canada
Adventure Canada will make its first attempt to visit the
Erebus site on the "Into the Northwest Passage" trip from 17
August to 2 September, and its second will take place upon its
"Out of the Northwest Passage" trip, which takes place from 2
to 18 September.
For more information on these trips, please see Adventure
Canada's website here (http://www.adventurecanada.com).
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