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Ice Landscape oil on linen 45 x 60cm 2008
28th May 1846
HMAS Terror and Errebus wintered in the ice in latitude 70 05 North N , longitude 98 23 West having wintered in 1845 - 46 at Beechy Island , in latitude 74 43 23 North . longitude 91 35 15 , after having ascended Wellington Channel to 77 and returned by the West side of Cornwallis Island .
Sir John Franklin in command . All well .
April 26th 1848
“HMAS Terror and Errebus were deserted on the 22nd April , five leagues NNW of this . having been beset since 12th September 1846 . The officers and crews consisting of 105 souls, under the command of Captain Crozier , landed here in lattitude 69 . 37 . 42 North, longitude 98 . 41 West. Sir John Franklin died on the 11th June 1847 , and the total loss by death in the expedition to this date nine officers and fifteen men .
note found in a stone cairn at Point Victory , NW coast of King William Island 1859
