In a Sept. 9, 2014 image provided by Parks Canada, HMS Erebus is pictured on a sonar scan in the Queen Maud Gulf in Nunavut. The Arctic Research Foundation said Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, that the second ship from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been found. The Arctic Research Foundation said Monday that the HMS Terror has been located by a research ship. It is a perfect time capsule,” said Adrian Schimnowski, the expedition leader of the research ship that located the HMS Terror. The search for an Arctic passage to Asia frustrated explorers for centuries, beginning with John Cabot’s voyage in 1497.

Source: Washington Post September 13, 2016 01:18 UTC