HMS Terror sank during a disastrous expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin, after whom Mount Franklin is named. Franklin was attempting to chart the North-West Passage, from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Canadian Arctic.
”The long-lost ship of British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, has been found in pristine condition at the bottom of an Arctic bay, researchers have said, in a discovery that challenges the accepted history behind one of polar exploration’s deepest mysteries.”
And here’s a song to go with it…
