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| Quote: | | An archeology team has discovered pieces from the long-lost 19th-century Franklin expedition ships — "the first discovery" of its kind in modern times, the government of Nunavut announced on Monday.
"An iron fitting from a Royal Navy ship, identified as part of a boat-launching davit, and bearing two broad arrows was found on an island in the southern search area," said the government of Nunavut in a news release.
"A wooden object, possibly a plug for a deck hawse, the iron pipe through which the ship’s chain cable would descend into the chain locker below, was also discovered."
Archeologist Doug Stenton headed the three-member team from the Nunavut government that found the items on an island in the Queen Maud Gulf near Nunavut's King William Island on Sept. 1.
"The iron fitting was lying on the shore, adjacent to a rock, a large rock, and the wooden artifact was a bit farther away, a bit farther from the shoreline," Stenton told CBC News.
In 1845, Sir John Franklin and 128 sailors embarked from England to find the Northwest Passage aboard the ships Erebus and Terror.
Search parties later recorded Inuit testimony that claimed one ship sank in deep water west of King William Island and one ship went perhaps as far south as Queen Maud Gulf or into Wilmot and Crampton Bay. |
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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Buried in Ice
One of the childrens' books I read to my daughter. A bit macabre for a children's book, featuring photos of exhumed bodies, but a most interesting story featuring the suspicion that lead poisoning from early canning technology played a part in the demise of the crew. The cans were sloppily sealed with high-lead solder. Neat detective work by a Canadian researcher (U. Alberta?). Owen Beattie, John Geiger, Shelley Tanaka.
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Some people have better things to do with their lives than walking the dog. Some don't.
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hiker1
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A sea floor scan reveals one of the missing ships from the Franklin expedition.
Franklin expedition movie planned
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:19 pm |
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Awesome! What a cool find.
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Franklin ship discovery just the 'beginning'
| Quote: | | Searchers looking for the two lost vessels of the Franklin expedition may have found a ship, but the discovery in frigid waters off Nunavut is in many ways only the start of unravelling the mystery of what happened to the ill-fated mid-19th century voyage and understanding its significance now. |
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
falling leaves / hide the path / so quietly
~John Bailey, "Autumn," a haiku year, 2001, as posted on oldgreypoet.com
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