Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Vanessa Heggie and comedian Stu Goldsmith to learn all about the perilous history of Arctic exploration. From the 15th to 20th Centuries, Europeans searched for the ...

The expedition was led by Sir John Franklin, an experienced explorer. His goal was to find the Northwest Passage, a shortcut through the Canadian Arctic connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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 ...

Under the command of Sir John Franklin, the two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, left England in 1845 but became icebound ...

The famous Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin has a memorial in St John the Evangelist's chapel in Westminster Abbey. He was born on 16th April 1786, the ninth child of Willingham Franklin. His brother ...

A rare figure of a lion tamer fetched the top price when a huge collection of Staffordshire pottery gathered by a Borders hotelier was sold at the weekend. The pieces, which belonged to the late ...

Sir Michael Palin and Dan Snow explore the storied history of HMS Terror and Erebus, two bomb ships that were repurposed for polar exploration in the 19th century. Led by Sir John Franklin, the ships ...

L’histoire débuta en 1845, lorsque l’explorateur britannique Sir John Franklin mena une expédition dans l’Arctique. Cette mission avait pour but d'acquérir de nouvelles connaissances scientifiques et ...

meaning Franklin has the nation's highest population of penguins and seals. This electorate is named after Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania 1837-43, but a man better known to ...