Beechey Island
Books
- Erebus and Terror The Search for Franklin and the Evidence of the Ice · Liszt Think
In May 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Baffin Bay and vanished.
- A Distant and Frozen Sea…tion. Their subsequent movements must be reconstructed from fragmentary evidence discovered years later: a note at Victory Point, graves on Beechey Island, scattered relics, Inuit testimony. But in the summer of 1845, none of this existed as knowledge. The expedition simply continued, its prog…
- The Machinery of Unease…n board ship, reported all well: ‘H.M.Ships Erebus and Terror Wintered in the Ice in Lat. 70°5’N Long. 98°23’W Having wintered in 1846-7 at Beechey Island’—a clerical error for 1845–46—and noted a party had left the ships on 24 May 1847. The second message, added in April 1848 and signed by Ca…
- The Comfort of Protocol…t would not come. The Victory Point note, which would eventually record their final known position, had not yet been written. The graves on Beechey Island, where three of their companions already lay, were still unmarked by any searcher’s eye. The Inuit hunters who would later provide the only…