![]() Public access to the site is not permitted. ![]() The site is jointly managed by Parks Canada and the local Inuit. On 22 April 1848, after three years in the Arctic, and 19 months spent ice-bound in northern Victoria Strait, the 105 surviving officers and crew of the Franklin Northwest Passage expedition deserted HMS Erebus and HMS Terror as the first step of their escape plan. The site consists of two separate areas, one enclosing each wreck, with perimeter coordinates: Terror and Erebus trapped in the ice, in AMCs fictionalized horror retelling of the Franklin Expedition, 'The Terror.' AMC Whether that debate between the expeditions officers ever occurred. On 12 September 2016, the wreck of HMS Terror was discovered by the Arctic Research Foundation in Terror Bay, off the southwest coast of King William Island at a depth of 69–79 ft (21–24 m). On 7 September 2014 the wreck of HMS Erebus was discovered by the Canadian Victoria Strait expedition in Wilmot and Crampton Bay, to the west of the Adelaide Peninsula just to the south of King William Island, in 11 metres of water.
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