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

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John ... Dr. Anne Keenleyside who found cut marks on nearly one-quarter of the human bones at NgLj-2, proving that the bodies of at least four ...

Franklin's 1846 Arctic expedition ... individual members of the 1845 Franklin expedition from the horrific reality of what might have befallen the body of their ancestor," the authors wrote ...

Human remains from the 1845 Franklin expedition revealed that a crew member ... where the survivors had intended to set off. The remains found were of James Fitzjames, who took the lead of HMS ...

The mysterious fate of Captain John Franklin’s doomed ... members of the 1845 Franklin expedition from the horrific reality of what might have befallen the body of their ancestor.

Human remains recovered from the British Royal Navy’s doomed Franklin expedition have been identified ... chromosome profiles from a tooth that was found on Canada’s King William Island ...

When Captain James Fitzjames departed the United Kingdom in 1845 on the third Franklin ... the expedition as they strove to save themselves,” Stenton said. When the Inuit first found bodies ...

The 1845 Franklin ... expedition had been to find the Northwest Passage - a navigable sea route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans via the Arctic. If a safe route North of Canada could be ...