Underwater archaeologists have recovered some artifacts from the wreckage of the HMS Erebus.
They are among the smallest artifacts recovered from the recent dive to HMS Erebus, but the two brass tunic buttons are also offering the most personal glimpse yet into what mysteries the shipwreck may reveal about the ill-fated Franklin expedition in the High Arctic.
The buttons found during the under-ice exploration of the wreck in mid-April, as it lay in the shallow waters of Wilmot and Crampton Bay off the coast of what is now Nunavut, certainly don’t answer the big questions about how Sir John Franklin’s quest to find the Northwest Passage came to its tragic end nearly 170 years ago.
Story: Janet Davison, CBC News | Photo: Thierry Boyer/Parks Canada
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