Something to look at..

Hey Will, I had seen and read that. No telling what they will find up there as the Ice melts. 

I have read a few books about those expeditions and rescue missions from back then. 

If you noticed that the crew was rescued by the HMS Resolute. There is and interesting history there. It was later locked in the ice, and abandoned. Some years later, it thawed and drifted out, and was recovered by some American whalers, who brought it in to port. They said that it looked perfect, with everything in its place. 

Whomever was president at the time, had it restored, then gave it back to Britain. They never put it back into commission for some reason. After 16 years, if my memory serves, they demolished it. From some of the wood, the Queen or someone commissioned a desk which arrived unexpectedly at eh White House. This is the Desk in the Oval office today, made from that ship. 

W, Clinton. Kennedy, and many more have used it while in office. 

After Clinton was elected, a replica of the oval office was copied in the Old State House, here in LR. I got to carve the Presidential seal for the front of it. 

So it is always interesting to see how little bits of threads of history tie all of this together. 

Another bit of trivia, is that the Sailor who spotted and recovered it when the Resolute floated out, had been along, and should have been the first mate on the Powell expedition to the N pole. This was a horrible story, featured in National Geographic a few years ago. Seems the Captain and Ships Doctor poisoned Mr Powell.  This sailor and a few eskimos were abandoned on an ice flow for about a year. They finally floated out and were rescued by whalers.  Fatal North was the name of that book, I think. I thought it was a pretty good read. Comparable to the Shackleton expedition.