A team of maritime archaeologists completed a detailed underwater study of the wreck of the SS Terra Nova.
Launched in 1884, the Terra Nova lived a peaceful life as a whaler until she joined Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition in 1910. Unlike Scott and the other members of the South Pole party, she survived the expedition but fell victim to pack ice during World War II and sank off the coast of Greenland.
There she rested until 2012, when marine survey technician Leighton Rolley proposed the general location of her sinking as a test project for new sonar equipment. The sonar scans detected various wreck-like features on the sea floor. One of them exactly matched the recorded length of the SS Terra Nova, 57m. After 70 long years, they had found the ship.