King William Island
On September 9, 2014, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the Victoria Strait Expedition had located one of Franklin's two ships beneath shallow waters south of King William Island. It is preserved in very good condition; the side-scan sonar could detect the deck planking. By the beginning of October, the wreck had been identified as HMS "Erebus". The other expedition vessel, HMS "Terror", was found in 2016 in Terror Bay, off the south-west coast of King William Island.