CANADIAN ARCHEOLOGISTS FIND LOST SHIP IN ARCTIC

29.07.2010 [17:37]
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Baku, July 29 (AZERTAC). Canadian archeologists have discovered the wreckage of the ship that has been credited with discovering the fabled Northwest Passage, saying the vessel remains in good condition after being abandoned more than 150 years ago in the Arctic ice, CNN reports.

Archeologists were able to snap sonar images of HMS Investigator on the weekend not long after they arrived at the remote Mercy Bay site in the Northwest Territories, Marc-Andre Bernier of Parks Canada said on Wednesday.

The Investigator was the British ship that was sent to search for two lost vessels that were part of Sir John Franklin`s ill-fated 1845 Royal Navy expedition to discover the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the Pacific through Canada`s Arctic archipelago.

"This is definitely of the utmost importance," said Bernier, chief of the underwater archeology service with Parks Canada, the federal body conducting the Arctic survey.

"This was the ship that confirmed and nailed the discovery of that passage."

CANADIAN ARCHEOLOGISTS FIND LOST SHIP IN ARCTIC

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