Parks Canada confirmed Monday a shipwreck found off the shores of Nunavut's King William Island is indeed HMS Terror, lost in Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage. The Arctic Research Foundation reported earlier this month that it had found the Terror on Sept. 3 "in pristine condition" in Nunavut's Terror Bay on King William Island, north of where Franklin's other ship, HMS Erebus, was found in 2014. As the story goes, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus became locked in ice in 1846, and the expedition to find the Northwest Passage resulted in the deaths of 129 men. A still from a video produced by the Arctic Research Foundation appears to show the wheel of HMS Terror. The Arctic Research Foundation reported that the Terror was discovered with many artifacts on board and that several, such as the ship's wheel and bell, have been well preserved.

Source: CBC News September 26, 2016 17:07 UTC