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The discovery of the century
A celebration of the find of HMS Erebus
The find
The real inside story of the discovery
Online Exclusive: Thrilling first-person account of the night the Martin Bergmann struck a shoal
The leader
Prime Minister Stephen Harper on the significance of the find
Online Exclusive: The full transcript of Harper's interview with Royal Canadian Geographical Society CEO John Geiger
The partners
2014 Victoria Strait Expedition members share their reactions
The history
A brief account of Franklin’s 1845 expedition and the searches for it
Online Exclusive: Stories on the historical search efforts for Sir John Franklin's 1845-1848 Arctic expedition
The importance
Essays by Noah Richler, Ken McGoogan, Leona Aglukkaq, Shelagh D. Grant, Joe MacInnis, Douglas Stenton, Fergus Fleming and Russell A. Potter
Online Exclusives:
How the Franklin expedition has impacted pop culture
Read all the stories Canadian Geographic has published related to the Franklin expedition
Read what the leading Inuit historian on the Franklin ships has to say about their discovery
Interview with international law expert on how the Franklin find affects Canada's claims to the North Pole
Profile of Parks Canada's lead marine archeologist Ryan Harris
Watch the Canadian Museum of Nature's video of artifacts from previous Franklin searches
More on the exploits and fates of famed British explorers Irvine and Mallory, Scott and Whymper
Read the letter Lady Jane wrote to the U.S. President in October 1849
The bodies
An exclusive interview with anthropologist Owen Beattie
Online Exclusive: Additional questions and answers from the interview with Owen Beattie
The maps
Seven historical charts related to the lost Franklin expedition that helped shape Canada
Online Exclusive: Bonus maps of Canada's North created by searchers of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition
The ships
How HMS Erebus and HMS Terror became polar exploration vessels
Online Exclusive: Interview with the Canadian who’s building a 1:48 scale model of HMS Terror
The technology
The key pieces of gear that helped find HMS Erebus
Online Exclusive: Watch Ryan Harris show off some of the equipment that was used during their dives on the wreck of the HMS Erebus
The future
What’s next for the searches for Sir John Franklin’s ships
Online Exclusive: Follow the ongoing search effort for the HMS Terror and read the latest exploration developments on Erebus
Departments
Editor’s notebook
More to the story
Polar blog
Charting chilly waters
The foreword
By John Geiger, CEO of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
