The ships were locked in a destructive stranglehold at the foot of the iceberg until eventually Terror surged past the iceberg and Erebus broke free. The impact floored the crew members while masts snapped and were torn away.
The ships crashed violently together and their rigging became entangled. Terror couldn't clear both Erebus and the iceberg, so a collision was inevitable. White Silence: Deep emotions seeing last images of Erebus victims on passenger film. The ice smashed against them so violently that their masts shook in a beating that would have destroyed any ordinary vessel.Įven more dangerously, in March 1842 the Erebus and Terror came close to destroying each other.Įrebus was suddenly forced to turn across Terror's pass in order to avoid crashing headlong into an iceberg which had just become visible through the snow.
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In one incident, they were caught in a stormy sea full of fragments of rock-hard ice. The ships sailed into the Antarctic – which was just as perilous as the north – for three successive years in 1841, 18. In 2014, the HMS Erebus was discovered in 36 feet of water off King William Island. The image on 23 January 2021 (left) shows a. This image was taken on an early Spring morning. Sentinel-2 infrared satellite images showing the active lava lake in the summit crater of Erebus during 2021. Together, they circumnavigated the continent and the expedition did much to map areas of Antarctica, the Ross Ice Shelf and set the scene for future polar exploration in that area. Mount Erebus is significant in New Zealand because on 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand plane crashed into the mountain in Antarctica, killing all 237 people on board.
The ships were completely refitted with additional strengthening and an internal heating system. The Erebus joined the Terror for the next expedition – to the opposite end of the Earth, the Antarctic – under the command of James Clark Ross (1839–43). 'HMS Erebus in the Ice, 1846' by François Etienne Musin ( BHC3325, © National Maritime Museum)
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