Sir John Franklin: Fabled Arctic ship found

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- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29131757

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One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic more than 160 years ago has been found, Canada's prime minister says...

... Sir John Franklin led the two ships and 129 men in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The expedition's disappearance shortly after became one of the great mysteries of the age of Victorian exploration.

The Canadian government began searching for Franklin's ships in 2008 as part of a strategy to assert Canada's sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, which has recently become accessible to shipping because of melting Arctic ice...

... The find has been described as "the biggest archaeological discovery the world has seen since the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb almost 100 years ago" by a British archeologist, William Battersby, who has written extensively about the Franklin expedition...

/More... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29131757

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(Edit: See also: http://www.democraticunderground.com/122832162 ; http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14847091 )

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