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Here's a terrific concept/study created by Disney's renowned illustrator Paul Wenzel (1935 - 2022)

Parks Canada has released new images from the first underwater exploration of the shipwreck of the HMS Terror. The ongoing study of the shipwreck and its artifacts should shed more light on Captain Sir John S. Franklin's doomed Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage in 1846. Franklin's two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, became icebound in the Victoria Strait, and all 129 crew members ultimately died. It's been an enduring mystery that has captured imaginations ever since. Novelist Dan Simmons immortalized the expedition in his 2007 horror novel, The Terror, which was later adapted into an anthology TV series for AMC in 2018. (Season 2 of the TV show, set in the Japanese internment camps of World War II, is currently airing.)

Known as the “Ship of Gold,” the SS Central America sank in a hurricane in September 1857 while carrying an astonishing 30,000 pounds of gold. The gold was being transported from California to New York by way of Panama during the early years of the California Gold Rush.

The SS Central America wreck was ultimately located in 1988 at a depth of more than 7,000 feet. A massive amount of gold coins and ingots were recovered, with an estimated value of more than $100 million.

... Among the most interesting artifacts recovered from the SS Central America in 2014 were several bags of gold nuggets, undoubtedly found by prospectors during the California Gold Rush. The largest of these gold nuggets weighs a whopping 92.6 grams, or more than three ounces.

An Australian man has unearthed a 1.4kg (49oz) gold nugget with a metal detector while wandering Western Australia's gold fields, say locals.A shop in Kalgoorlie shared pictures of the rock online, estimated to be worth A$100,000 (£54,000; $69,000).

Preserved under a layer of sand, it offers a glimpse of 17th-century aristocratic life.