Beginning in the summer of 1992, several scientific expeditions were undertaken at the Boat Place.5 A number of artefacts representing a ship's boat were collected, including iron and copper nails, pieces of wood and other objects. Artefacts representing personal affects included a clay pipe ...
Perhaps the most famous of the expeditions was the British-led Franklin voyage including the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, which in April 1848 became stuck in ice and were abandoned in the Victoria Strait. Dozens of expeditions were subsequently commissioned to find the ships, but they would not ...