Mysterious lost ships, HMS Terror and Erebus, reveal new layer of clues in Arctic

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Almost two centuries ago, 134 men set sail on two British naval ships (the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror) to discover the fabled Northwest Passage, a trade route through the Arctic linking Europe to the riches of the East. They never returned. The Inuit, native residents of the North, tell tales of the three-masted ships caught in ice and of men afflicted by scurvy and going hungry, until finally they broke the biggest taboo of humankind: cannibalism....~!

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a1a6de-9628-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html
 

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