Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic
Inuit history accurate
"The beauty of where they found it is it's proof positive of Inuit oral history," CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge, who has covered the Franklin search for many years, said Tuesday.
"The Inuit have said for generations that one of their hunters saw a ship in that part of the passage, abandonedand ended up wrecking. It's exactly where this guy said it was.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says one of Canada's greatest mysteries now hasbeen solved, with the discovery of one of the lost ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition.
"This is a great historic event," Harper said.
"For more than a century this has been a great Canadian story.It's been the subject of scientists and historians and writers and singers. And so I think we have a really important day in mapping together the history of our country," the prime minister said.
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At this point, the searchers aren't sure if they've found HMS Erebus or HMS Terror. But sonar images from the waters of Victoria Strait, just off King William Island, clearly show wreckage of aship on the ocean floor.
In a statement, the prime minister said Franklin's expeditionlaid the foundations of Canadas Arctic sovereignty. He called the lost ships Canada's "onlyundiscovered national historical site."
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