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

Amid frigid Arctic conditions, dwindling rations, and no hope in sight, the surviving crew of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition ... to escape across the frozen ice and tundra.

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 ...

Synott never found Franklin’s frozen resting place ... explorer nicknamed “the man who ate his boots” after half his crew died on his first expedition and he ate his own boot leather ...

While human populations in Antarctica are limited to visiting researchers, people have been living in the frozen North for ... up on the disastrous 1845 Franklin expedition, I came across an ...

Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition ... That ship was one of the two recently located wrecks from the 129-man expedition that, led by Sir John Franklin, disappeared into the Arctic in ...

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.

What happened to the Franklin ... theory (Frozen in Time); and notes that recent studies show “lead poisoning can no longer be seen as the sole or primary cause of the expedition’s downfall ...