British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team explored the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost on the ...

The adventurer and author of Into the Ice recounts his harrowing attempt to sail the Northwest Passage and why he always listens to his gut.

Fitzjames stepped in to captain one of the ships after Sir John Franklin, the expedition’s leader, died on June 11, 1847. Fitzjames’ mandible is one of four sets of remains from the site that ...

Amid frigid Arctic conditions, dwindling rations, and no hope in sight, the surviving crew of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition to chart a Northwest Passage to China finally ...

BUDINGTON, from Frobisher's Bay, has arrived here, short of provisions, and with Mr. HALL, of the new Sir John Franklin Expedition, on board. The Expedition lost one man the first winter out.

In April 1848, exactly three years after the vessels departed England, the expedition crew abandoned the ice-trapped ships following the death of Franklin and 23 other men. Fitzjames helped lead ...

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 ...

Franklin's 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent paper published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, DNA analysis revealed that a tooth recovered from ...

A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic. By Alexander Nazaryan Into the frozen fray they went ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified using DNA and genealogical analyses. The skeletal remains of a senior officer ...