"Identification of a Senior Officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage Expedition" by Stenton, Fratpietro and Park ...

The expedition was led by Sir John Franklin, an experienced explorer. His goal was to find the Northwest Passage, a shortcut ...

A new DNA analysis has identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed ...

Remote, windswept, and harsh, the isle is classified as a polar desert, with barren mountains rising above frost-worn beaches ...

Under the command of Sir John Franklin, the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, left England in 1845 but became icebound ...

The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition have been identified as that of ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

A few years ago, along with a bunch of other folks, I became mildly obsessed with the AMC series The Terror, which follows two 19th century British ships attempting to navigate the Northwest Passage.

It reveals the story about one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history: the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition, an Arctic expedition ... lorsque l’explorateur britannique Sir ...

Known as "the man who ate his boots" after being forced to eat the leather parts of clothes when near starvationA pair of snow shoes used by Captain John Franklin (1786-1847) on his expedition to ...

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger (Greystone, 1987). It advances the lead poisoning theory after three bodies were exhumed. Unravelling the Franklin ...