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The ongoing search for the two Franklin Expedition vessels — the Terror and the Erebus — has proved to be quite a difficult task.
Frigid Arctic weather conditions and blankets of thick ice act as a stronghold against all attempts, making it a struggle for anyone to enter the icy landscape, let alone find the ships.
The Queen Maud Gulf — an area just southwest of King William Island — is famous for magnetic background noise, which poses complications when searching for a ship with a magnometre. The broken limestone and low gravel ridge terrain of King William Island's northwestern coast is harsh even if the weather is tolerable. Search vessels have been slammed and locked between slabs of ice, preventing them from reaching their goal of finding Franklin and his men.
Many searches took place in the area where Franklin's ships were last seen, but all ended without finding what they set out to find.
By Lindsay Foss
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