Victory Point
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…d beyond European observation. 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…
- The Machinery of Unease…ould prove fatal. The Erebus and Terror had already been abandoned when Ross received his commission. The note that would later be found at Victory Point, the definitive record of the expedition’s collapse, was already written, already cached, already waiting for eyes that would not arrive fo…
- The Comfort of Protocol…ing for a third winter in the ice, or a fourth, or preparing to abandon their ships and walk south toward a rescue that 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 thei…