Franklin’s expedition left Kent, England, on May 19, 1845, in the hopes of finally mapping a Northwestern route around the world to Asia. By the time the crew left their ships in 1848, Franklin had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 2 minutes On May 19, 1845, two ...

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 ...

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 ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole journey ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports on December 6, researchers add credence to earlier conclusions that Franklin’s 129 crew members did not die of lead ...

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

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