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 ...

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 ...

This month, the infamously ill-fated Franklin Expedition returned to the headlines with the discovery of the missing HMS Terror. The find follows the 2014 ...

In 1846, the Franklin Expedition was trapped in the ice of the Victoria Strait, but Franklin died on June 11, 1847. After Franklin's death, James FitzJames, commander of the Royal Navy's expedition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 19th century, the British Navy determined to solve the puzzle of the Northwest Passage. The promise of a shorter route between Europe and the beckoning markets of the East proved irresistible, ...