Canada releases pictures of world's most northerly shipwreck

Guardian (UK) ^ | Saturday, April 26, 2014 | Suzanne Goldenberg

[SunkenCiv]

The barnacle-encrusted hull of the supply ship Breadalbane is revealed in waters off Beechey Island. Photograph: Operation Nunalavit/Flickr

[SunkenCiv]

The current ship was lost while looking for the Franklin expedition.

[latina4dubya]

wow... the deep blue waters scare me... i find them even more mysterious than outer space...

[MUDDOG]

Wow. Global warming trapping ships in the ice even back then.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Beat me to it! :)

[left that other site]

Nunuvut! A great place for a time-share resort.

LOL.

Home of my ancestors, BTW!

[Beowulf9]

This is really interesting to me. These old ships, and their dire endings in the deep.

The other day I watched this fascinating video about the Flying Dutchman on Youtube. Extremely well done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNMgBxjegQc

[Gay State Conservative]

Any gold on board? What are the GPS coordinates of this wreck? I'll be heading north in an hour....it's probably about a four day drive for me!

[thackney]

I worked a project for Resolute Island in Nunavut.

Amazingly that place is a tourist destination (okay, not for many).

When you are too far north for the Tundra to grow, you have gone too far.

[left that other site]

Even the Inuit part of me hates the cold. So now I live in Florida!

My Beloved Daddy taught me Arctic Survival Skills though. It will help me in the coming ice Age! :-)

[Gay State Conservative]

Amazingly that place is a tourist destination (okay, not for many).

The north slope of Alaska is also a tourist destination.For some.

[Squawk 8888]

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[thackney]

For me, I had to be paid to visit it.

I got to experience wind chill of -72°F and actual temps of -48°F.

I miss that work, just not the temps so much.

[thackney]

By the way, I did the Resolute work from Alaska. It was far colder in Resolute with much tougher design criteria than the North Slope.

[kitchen]

How's the fishing? Would it be a good place to go for arctic char?

[thackney]

I doubt it. It is so cold that far north very little grows, and that would limit food sources for fish. Tundra would not grow there like it does on the Alaskan North Slope.

Might be some other factors that bring in the fish, I just don’t know.

[GeronL]

Shivering timbers, Batman!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“My Beloved Daddy taught me Arctic Survival Skills though. It will help me in the coming ice Age! :-)”

Well, when they fix global warming and the ice age ensues, and they have no backup plan, you should be ok.

[Foolsgold]

[Fester Chugabrew]

In 1997 I wrote an instrumental on the Franklin Expedition as involving Adolphus Washington Greely. It’s called “Polar Patrol” and can be found on the recording “Transmogrified,” by Uncle Art.