The expedition aimed to navigate the Northwest Passage, an Arctic ship route ... from a molar found in 1993. They also ...

BBC's Alpa Patel: "the mission set sail in high spirits and hope but contact was lost two years later" The United Kingdom is gifting two fabled British explorer shipwrecks to Canada. HMS Erebus ...

Three summers ago, divers found the first wreck of the Franklin Expedition. Using state-of-the-art technology, they’re now piecing together what led to the tragedy In the murkiness shrouding the ...

The only written record ever found of the disastrous Franklin Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848 ... near where Franklin's ships had become irretrievably beset in pack ice in 1846.

Abandoning their ships, which had become locked in sea ice (at around ... These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few ...

It is the only known photograph of Capt Francis Crozier An original portrait photograph of a famous Arctic explorer, taken shortly before the doomed Franklin expedition, will be auctioned in ...