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Tag: King William Island

  • Friday, September 12th 2014 - 03:58 UTC

    Canadian team locates English vessels lost in 1845 in the Northwest Passage

    PM Harper announced one of Canada's greatest mysteries has been solved with the discovery of one of the two ships belonging to the Franklin Expedition

    After more than 160 years of searching to understand the fate of English explorer Sir John Franklin’s fabled arctic voyage, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a Canadian team has located one of Franklin’s historic ships and solved one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries, according to reports from Parks Canada.