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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, First Officer, HMS Erebus Paul Ready as Assistant...
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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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    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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    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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    [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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Emil Bessels (category Polaris expedition)
    Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition. UCalgary Press. ISBN 9781552388754. Gilman, D. C.; et al., eds. (1905). "Bessels, Emil" . The New...
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    Galitzin, under the title Voyage sur les côtes septentrionales de la Sibérie et de la mer glaciale (2 vols., 1841). From the French version of the complete...
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    Farthest North Northwest Passage List of Arctic expeditions Chisholm 1911. Fredreich 1824. Voyages et découvertes outremer, A. Mangin, 1863 Fleming, Fergus...
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