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    John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the...
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  • Commanding Officer, HMS Terror, and expedition second-in-command Tobias Menzies as Commander James Fitzjames, Executive Officer, HMS Erebus Paul Ready as Assistant...
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    [citation needed] with the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror, which were named for the expedition's vessels. They sailed for 250 nautical miles...
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    Fitzjames was given command of HMS Erebus and tasked with recruiting most of the crew for both the Erebus and HMS Terror and he included a number of former...
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    Gjoa Haven Airport The discovery of HMS Terror and HMS Erebus shipwrecks from the Franklin's lost expedition is expected to bring increased tourism to...
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    Henry Le Vesconte (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Michael (2018). Erebus: The Story of a Ship. London: Hutchinson. p. 199. ISBN 978-1847948120. Muster Rolls of H.M.SS. Erebus and Terror, ADM 38/672 and...
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    between Mount Erebus and Mount Terror volcanoes on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was first mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) 1901–04...
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    Harry Goodsir (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    served on three expeditions to the Arctic, set off in what would prove Franklin's final expedition in 1845, commanding HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. There were...
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    King William Island (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    the wreck had been identified as HMS Erebus. The other expedition vessel, HMS Terror, was found in 2016 in Terror Bay, off the south-west coast of King...
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    Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
    averted interest". Following James Clark Ross' expedition aboard the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in January 1841, Ross suggested that there were...
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    History of Antarctica (category CS1 Estonian-language sources (et))
    was unable to reach it on his 4 year-expedition from 1839 to 1843. Commanding the British ships Erebus and Terror, he braved the pack ice and approached...
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    discovery of the wrecks of the two ships in Franklin's lost expedition, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, in the 2010s. Charles Francis Hall, who searched for Franklin...
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  • Beechey Island (category Franklin's lost expedition)
    Other features include Wellington Channel, Erebus Harbour, and Terror Bay (not to be confused with the Terror Bay south of King William Island). The first...
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    famously, these ships included HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. In this case, the volcanoes – Mount Erebus and Mount Terror on Ross Island in Antarctica – were...
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    Royale Belge de Géographie. vol. 20–24 (1896–1900). Expedition Belge au Pôle Sud: la Belgica et son Equipage Archived 2 February 2017 at the Wayback...
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    Adrien de Gerlache's Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899. From 1903 to 1906, he led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest...
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    Voyage of HM Ships Erebus and Terror (1844–1875). J.D. Hooker, The botany of the Antarctic voyage of HM discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843...
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    The Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1910–12, in the ship Kainan Maru, was the first such expedition by a non-European nation. It was concurrent with...
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    born to a Baltic German noble Bellingshausen family in the Lahhetagge Manor [et], Ösel County in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire; now Saare...
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    Antarctica (category CS1 Estonian-language sources (et))
    named the Ross Ice Shelf. Mount Erebus and Mount Terror are named after two ships from his expedition: HMS Erebus and Terror. The women were Pam Young, Jean...
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    Guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 4 July 2012. Fütterer, D. et al. (1992) "The Expedition ARK-VIII/3 of RV Polarstern in 1991", Reports on Polar and Marine...
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    2007. Retrieved July 12, 2007. Brigham, L.; McCalla, R.; Cunningham, E.; et al. (2009). Brigham, L.; Santos-Pedro, V.M.; Juurmaa, K. (eds.). Arctic Marine...
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    for the arrival of the two ships of James Ross's expedition to Antarctica, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. On 25 February, the schooners sailed towards the...
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    fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86°14′ during his Fram expedition of 1893–1896. Although he retired from exploration after his return to...
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    actor and opera singer. He went on his first expedition in 1902–1904, known as The Danish Literary Expedition, with Jørgen Brønlund, Harald Moltke and Ludvig...
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    polar ice cap between Europe and America. The expedition was the brainchild of polar explorer and expedition leader Roald Amundsen, the airship's designer...
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    Southern Ocean (category CS1 Estonian-language sources (et))
    Mount Erebus and Mount Terror are named after two ships from his expedition: HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914...
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    Emil Racoviță (category Belgian Antarctic Expedition)
    after returning from the expedition. The results of his research were published in 1900, under the title La vie des animaux et des plantes dans l'Antarctique...
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    polar expedition vessel of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition of 1921–1922. The vessel was renamed Quest by Lady Emily Shackleton, wife of expedition leader...
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    Charles Francis Hall (category Polaris expedition)
    PMID 4907067. Taichman, R.; et al. (2017). "Critical assessment of the oral condition of the crew of the Franklin expedition". Arctic. 70 (1): 25–36. doi:10...
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