The Terror: Recommended Viewing
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** The Terror is a TV series telling the unknown and creatively fictionalised story of Franklin's lost expedition (1845-1848). It is based on the novel of the same title by US author Dan Simmons. It is relevant for us here on the one hand due to where the expedition began... and for some more reasons I will reveal below. Two British ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror , set out from England to use Greenland as a springboard for the exploration of the Canadian Arctic. Their ultimate mission was to discover and chart the Northwest Passage. Ice doesn't help navigation - ice doesn't help life, either. They ended up stuck and starved. No one survived. See below the possible route they traveled. The wrecks of the two ships were found only as recently as 2014 (Erebus) and 2016 (Terror). The possible route of the Franklin expedition - by Hans van der Maarel As far a...