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Timelapse video: Victoria Strait search for the Franklin Expedition ships

A view of the Arctic ice that plagued this year’s search
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Image from the Voyager during this summer's Victoria Strait Expedition Expand Image
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You may not be able to travel to the Arctic, but this video, taken by Joshua R. Thienpont, a W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellow on board One Ocean Expeditions’ Voyager, shows the conditions searchers faced as they scoured Canada’s North to find the lost Franklin Expedition ships.

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