tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post6238061702639429808..comments2024-01-23T08:36:56.787-08:00Comments on Erebus & Terror Files: The Matty Island wreckPeter Carneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720739633773324546noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-81862333682769888762017-02-01T18:22:42.456-08:002017-02-01T18:22:42.456-08:00If we could find the remains of the cache, maybe w...If we could find the remains of the cache, maybe we could identify the ship it came from. The map in Burwash's report seems to show the cache near the south end of Blenky Island.<br />Randall Osczevskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09858473343619938440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-79378864806171276272016-12-17T14:27:16.340-08:002016-12-17T14:27:16.340-08:00Burwash's map (above) shows that area of Matty...Burwash's map (above) shows that area of Matty Island very poorly. The entire north end of the eastern arm of the Omega shaped island is missing. What if the cache wasn't on Blenky Island at all, but on another large island, off that same missing coast, inside (west) of Blenky Island. This is too easily answered by looking at an up-to-date map and noting that there are no such large islands. At least, not anymore. The land is currently rising at a rate of about a metre per century. What was once an island off the north east coast of Matty Is. where a cache was found by some Inuit might now be part of the coast.<br />Randall Osczevskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09858473343619938440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-34894981508888075072016-01-31T09:05:41.249-08:002016-01-31T09:05:41.249-08:00A drifting ship might just go with the current and...A drifting ship might just go with the current and not bump into islands and shoals. It might just flow around them with the current. Only if the current changes direction very little or very abruptly is a ship not likely to go with the flow. This is the principle behind using fine fibres to filter particles out of a flow of air or water. It is not the size of the holes between fibres that matters, but the diameter of the fibres; the finer the better. It works with ships, as Jens Munk found out on the night of July 25th 1619, when a strong current took his two ships through some islands in Hudson Strait: "had there been ten helmsmen, who had sailed these waters year after year, they could then in no wise have piloted the ships among these islets better than they were now carried and driven unscathed by the ice and current." (from Thorkild Hansen's "The Way to Hudson Bay" 1970 p.235.) Thus an unmanned drift of Franklin's ships among a multitude of islands might have been possible.Randall Osczevskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09858473343619938440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-9024946212871126532012-09-11T13:01:20.567-07:002012-09-11T13:01:20.567-07:00Is It supposed that the ship sailed till this poin...Is It supposed that the ship sailed till this point? or was the drift which carry them? <br /><br />It is a strange place to sail if they were trying to scape, isn´t it?<br /><br />I don´t know nothing about the drift or the currents in that area or if the strait is clear of ice in summer, but I suppose that it would be a miracle that the ship could have passed through the strait without being stuck in any of the numerous inlets. Andrés Paredeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283802897907742244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7460851571985771047.post-22535082705679458782012-09-09T16:11:04.449-07:002012-09-09T16:11:04.449-07:00It does make you wonder....The Inuit testimony is ...It does make you wonder....The Inuit testimony is really more valuable than gold!Jaeschylushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12204972787032135611noreply@blogger.com