Sir John Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, to find the Northwest Passage. They vanished without a trace, sparking one of history's great maritime puzzles. For years, ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the ...

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 ...

The mystery of what happened to Franklin and all of his men has never been entirely solved, though the wrecks of both his ...

Researchers in Canada have been exploring the wreck of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition. The voyage departed from England in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage. Michelle Fleury explains the ...

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 ... L’histoire débuta en 1845, lorsque ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 was discovered in 1859. It was found in a stone cairn erected on the western shore of King ...

The Frozen Compass, a narrative adventure game that depicts the story of a boy and his dog stranded in the Arctic. It will ...

The cairn contains the remains of John Gregory and two other members of the 1845 Franklin expedition. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...