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Behind them, the stone-and-snow cone of Mount Erebus vents its volcanic breath, reminding them there is land here.
And though he'd heard that reaching the 12500-foot summit would be an ordeal, he wasn't prepared for the scorching lava bombs that Erebus hurled at him.
However, archaeologists also want to study the Erebus in detail, which could provide vital information about the expedition's fate.
On that voyage in search of the Northwest Passage, he commanded two ships, the Erebus and the Terror.
And John Franklin left England for the last time in 1845 in command of two ships, the Erebus and the Terror.
On June 11, 1847, Sir John Franklin died aboard the Erebus frozen in the ice in Victoria Strait while attempting to map the Northwest Passage.
In May 1845 the HMS Erebus 115 and the HMS Terror sailed, the 134 men on board convinced they would find the famous passage.
Last summer marked the most recent attempt to pin down the final resting place of Erebus and Terror.
Few things could mark our presence in the Arctic more than using these findings and the related climate model to locate Erebus and Terror.
During our Erebus mission, we were to walk in the footsteps of this famous French vulcanologist.
Mount Erebus in Antarctica rises at the landward end of a deep indentation in the Ross Sea coastline.
After more abortive attempts, the Admiralty decided, in 1845, to send Sir John Franklin with two steamers, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, to resolve the problem.
From 1839 to 1843, the British rear admiral James Ross, in command of the ships Erebus and Terror, explored the coast of Victoria Land.
Just how events on the Erebus and Terror unravelled is still unclear, but could be resolved by exploring the Erebus.
German coastal guns replied within minutes of the bombardment from the monitors and fired accurately at Erebus and Terror but with no effect.
He, along with his expedition, made the first ascent of Mount Erebus and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole.
In a few weeks they will drill beneath the thick ice in the remote Canadian Arctic and in freezing water explore the wreck of the Erebus, flagship of Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to discover the North-West Passage.
The disappearance of HMS Terror and Erebus, two ships that set sail from England in 1845 seeking an Arctic route from east to west, haunts us still.
One theory of what happened next, based on examples of other icebound ships found thousands of kilometres from their last sightings, is that Erebus and Terror drifted southwest of the island with the ice floes and icebergs.
And this exploration took a heavy toll of human life: in 1845, the Erebus and the Terror disappeared together with the 134 men under the command of John Franklin.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This plan, which pog intended to modify at its conclusion, satisfied Erebus.
With him ruled the goddess of Night and their son was Erebus, god of Darkness.
I heard Mr dunning, as he passed me, apostrophising the night as dark as Erebus.
They had reached the gate where Erebus waited, when Russell took off his hat.
There are others as dark as Erebus who would have done nothing of the sort.
The blacke infernall Furies, the erinyes, or goddesses of vengeance, who dwelt in Erebus.
Nyx, the sister of Erebus, represented Night, and was worshipped by the ancients with the greatest solemnity.
Nyx again, on her side was also doubly united, having been married at some indefinite period to Erebus.
He was sheathed from head to foot in a tight-fitting garment, black as Erebus!
And in that Erebus of the skylight room, she slowly raised her heavy eyelids, and smiled.
Nox was the daughter of Chaos, and sister of Erebus and mors.
Such a hush had fallen on the ship that she might have been a bark of the dead floating in slowly under the very gate of Erebus.
The chebec, commanded by Erebus, had nothing remarkable in its exterior.
It was dark as Erebus, but flint and steel soon produced a light.
Pim is black as Erebus from the smoke of cooking in the little tent.
Through narrow, stinking alleys, black as Erebus, he groped, and then up a rickety stairway, at the end of which was a closed door and a tiny, unglazed window.
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