Thursday, July 29, 2010
Avast Thar Me Hearties!
Okay, they probably didn’t talk like that in this particular case, but this most definitely be a tale of high adventure and captains courageous on the unforgiving seas of Arctic Canada! One hundred and fifty years ago, a ship that nearly succeeded in navigating the Northwest Passage fell afoul of the harsh pack ice and was left behind. Today, it was rediscovered.
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This may be the summer that they find the Erebus and Terror. Now *that* would be cool! Ten years ago we had an opportunity to walk a long the beach of an unnamed island in the western arctic archipelago looking for "stuff" left behind by the John Franklin expedition.
Actually, there were a number of us Salt Springers up there..... we get around, eh?
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