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

Author Ken McGoogan makes a strong case for his theory on the expedition, one that will be debated by notoriously fickle ...

A new book argues that a deadly decision made decades before the doomed Franklin Expedition may finally explain why so many ...

Despite that failure, Franklin was appointed to lead an overland expedition to explore subarctic Canada in 1819. His route would take his party—which included physician/naturalist Sir John ...

In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out from England with 128 men aboard two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, on a mission to discover the Northwest Passage — a famed sea route from the ...

The 1845 Franklin Expedition was the penultimate attempt at discovering the Northwest Passage, a sea route along the northern tier of North America that would provide England with a coveted ...

Synnott wanted to retrace the path of an 1845 expedition led by British explorer Sir John Franklin, who was attempting to chart the sea route over North America and open a valuable trade avenue ...

Their mission: Chart the last unexplored area of the Canadian archipelago for a likely route to the Bering ... but no trace of the Franklin expedition was found until 1854. That’s when the ...

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 ...

Fitzjames was part of an expedition led by Sir John Franklin that set out in 1845 from ... an Arctic ship route that links the Atlantic with the Pacific. But both ships became trapped in ice ...

The 1845 Franklin Expedition may be the greatest disaster in the history of British Polar exploration. None of Sir John Franklin's original 129-strong crew survived, shrouding their grizzly last ...