Behind them, the stone-and-snow cone of Mount Erebus vents its volcanic breath, reminding them there is land here. |
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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. |
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However, archaeologists also want to study the Erebus in detail, which could provide vital information about the expedition's fate. |
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On that voyage in search of the Northwest Passage, he commanded two ships, the Erebus and the Terror. |
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And John Franklin left England for the last time in 1845 in command of two ships, the Erebus and the Terror. |
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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. |
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In May 1845 the HMS Erebus 115 and the HMS Terror sailed, the 134 men on board convinced they would find the famous passage. |
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Last summer marked the most recent attempt to pin down the final resting place of Erebus and Terror. |
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Few things could mark our presence in the Arctic more than using these findings and the related climate model to locate Erebus and Terror. |
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During our Erebus mission, we were to walk in the footsteps of this famous French vulcanologist. |
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Mount Erebus in Antarctica rises at the landward end of a deep indentation in the Ross Sea coastline. |
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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. |
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From 1839 to 1843, the British rear admiral James Ross, in command of the ships Erebus and Terror, explored the coast of Victoria Land. |
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Just how events on the Erebus and Terror unravelled is still unclear, but could be resolved by exploring the Erebus. |
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German coastal guns replied within minutes of the bombardment from the monitors and fired accurately at Erebus and Terror but with no effect. |
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He, along with his expedition, made the first ascent of Mount Erebus and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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Its conditions affect whether Erebus just exhales streams of carbon-rich gas or snorts out the occasional car-sized lava bomb. |
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Mount Erebus on Ross Island is the world's southernmost active volcano. |
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During the Nimrod Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton in 1907, parties led by Edgeworth David became the first to climb Mount Erebus and to reach the South Magnetic Pole. |
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