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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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