Added: Jul 29, 2010
Author: Susiehm
Duration: 2:16
"This is one of the most important shipwrecks in Canadian history because Investigator carried Capt. Robert McClure who discovered the western entrance to the Northwest Passage," HMS Investigator, abandoned in the Arctic 155 years ago and sunk in Mercy Bay N.W.T. Canada. "It's fundamental to Canadian sovereignty in the Northwest Passage" Copper siding from the ship was apparently used so extensively that some aboriginal groups became known as the Copper Inuit. Parks Canada archeologists will set sail in August to search for the Franklin expedition's two ships, the Erebus and the Terror.
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