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Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper has recently confirmed to have found one of two ships lost in 1846 Franklin Expedition in the Arctic. In an official statement issued by the PMO on Tuesday morning, it was revealed that “although we do not know yet whether the discovery is Her Majesty’s Ship (HMS) Erebus or HMS Terror, we do have enough information to confirm its authenticity.”
It was explained that the finding was confirmed on Sunday using a Parks Canada remotely operated underwater vehicle during the Victoria Strait Expedition. In his remarks, Mr. Harper congratulated those involved in searching for the ships over the past several years and stated that “this is truly a historic moment for Canada. Franklin’s ships are an important part of Canadian history given that his expeditions, which took place nearly 200 years ago, laid the foundations of Canada’s Arctic sovereignty.” Harper added that “finding the first vessel will no doubt provide the momentum — or wind in our sails — necessary to locate its sister ship and find out even more about what happened to the Franklin Expedition’s crew.”
The news has come only a day after Nunavut’s government announced that an archaeology team found an iron fitting “certainly from one of the Franklin shipwrecks” on Sept. 1. The wooden object, possibly a plug for a deck hawse was also discovered later. The Nunavut release alleged that “this discovery is consistent with, and supports, 19th century Inuit oral testimony describing a shipwreck to the south of King William Island.”
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