2. In Search of Franklin - BOAT PLACE - Episode 2

Join Ron in this presentation of Episode 2, a video traveling on one of his arctic expeditions. This segment highlights a trip that was undertaken back in the year 2011, flying his DeHavilland Beaver floatplane over Erebus Bay, after landing at Gjoa Haven on King William Island, Nunavut. In this episode Ron talks about his 2011 theories at this haunting place in this high arctic region called "BOAT PLACE”. This is the location where a handful of starving English sailors huddled together and slowly froze to death. These were just some of the many doomed crew mates from the British Admiralty's Expedition of 1845 led by Sir John Franklin. None ever returned, and not one survived.
After Ron visited this site, he correctly theorized and published in November of 2011 that at least one of the ships was remanned - based in part on his observations of the live conditions here on the ground at Boat Place. This was was concluded partly based on the fact that the lifeboat's tantalizing final rest position was pointing back to the two mother ships when first found by the initial search party. Indeed, the two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror were to come to rest on the ocean floor very far apart. Ron's short thesis published here:
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Ron Carlson has spent over 15 years exploring northern parts of Nunavut, Ron Carlson has spent over 15 years exploring northern parts of Nunavut, spending much of his time surveying areas on King William Island and other surrounding areas, in search of the 2 famous lost ships that long ago departed from England in an ambitious attempt to find the holy grail route of the fabled Northwest Passage. This was to be a journey of destiny. The ships; HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, were ultimately both permanently beset in the shifting arctic sea ice, and from there, all of the 129 officers and crew were then ultimately doomed to endure a very long and suffering fate.
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TO COME - The BOOK that will be published on the stories of Ron's adventures, dangerous encounters and discoveries, including the chapter describing Ron being the first to discover one of these two famous ships, first in 2011, then again in 2012, as he looked down upon and photographed the silhouette of the wreck, today known to be HMS Erebus, in the calm waters from far above.
See more on each step of Ron's expeditions on his blogs:
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And the expedition during the summer of 2012:
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Learn more about the Lost Franklin Expedition:en.wikipedia.o...
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