Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped into place. However, like most new bits of information concerning this enduring exploration mystery, it raises more questions than it ...

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent ...

Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition is a moment of history that piques a great deal of interest and imagination today. The sailors who died trying to ...

Explorers have found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition to Canada's Arctic Northwest Passage, Britain's Guardian newspaper said on ...

Captain James Fitzjames served as captain of the HMS Erebus, but his rank didn't prevent his men from eating his remains in a desperate bid to survive. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes On May 19, ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin's doomed 1845 voyage into the Arctic to find a way through the Northwest Passage has captured imaginations for over a century and a half. A recent ...

A detail from English artist Edwin Landseer’s 1864 painting “Man Proposes, God Disposes,” depicting ship’s wreckage in the Arctic, human bones, and two polar bears having their way with it all, graces ...

In 1845, two ships, searching for the elusive Northwest Passage, set forth into the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic - the Terror and the Erebus, under the command ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using DNA ...

Edited by Russell A. Potter, Regina Koellner, Peter Carney, and Mary Williamson; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022; 504 pages; $49.95. Owing to its tragic end, still wrapped in mystery 18 decades ...

Owing to its tragic end, still wrapped in mystery 18 decades later, we tend not to equate the word “optimism” with the Franklin Expedition. Its failure was so catastrophic that we easily forget that ...