Britain To Give Canada 2 Recently Discovered 1880s Shipwrecks Of Arctic Explorer
(World News UK)

Britain has announced it will give Canada the wrecks of the two ships commanded by British explorer John Franklin, who perished with his crew while trying to chart the Northwest Passage through the Arctic in the 1840s, The Guardian reported. HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were found in 2014 and 2016 about 30 miles (48 kilometers) apart near King William Island in the Canadian Arctic, about 1,200 miles northwest of Toronto. Under an agreement between the two countries, the wrecks were the property of Britain, although Canada had custody and control of them. The UK Ministry of Defense said Monday it would transfer the ownership to Parks Canada, but retain a small sample of artifacts. British...