168 years after sinking in the Arctic, the HMS Terror has been discovered

In 1845, Sir John Franklin set off with two ships on an expedition to try and discover the Northern Passage — only to vanish. Now, 168 years after it disappeared, the ship HMS Terror has been discovered, according to The Guardian. (The other, the HMS Erebus, was found in 2004.)

Franklin’s expedition sailed North to chart the last unknown regions of the Arctic’s Northern Passage — a sea route that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and help British traders save time by not sailing around Africa or South America. For a long time, historians thought that Franklin’s ships became trapped in ice in September 1846 and that its crew attempted to make their way back to civilization on foot.

In 2014, the HMS Erebus was discovered in...