About 120 racers are finding their way through Vermont and Franklin County’s landscapes this week, navigating the course with ...

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

SUPPLEMENT: In 1849, the Admiralty sent out two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on a mission to find the North West Passage. The mystery of what happened to the ships of the Franklin ...

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

The Shipwrecks From John Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Were Exactly Where the Inuit Said They Would Be In May 1845, 129 British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest ...

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 ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole ...

Far from reaching its ambitious goal, though, the Franklin Expedition would go down as the most catastrophic Arctic endeavor in history. Not a single man survived. Nearly two centuries later ...

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 ...

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, ...

The goal of the British Royal Navy’s Franklin expedition had been to find the Northwest Passage - a navigable sea route between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans via the Arctic.

Franklin’s Lost Expedition was an ill-fated British voyage that attempted to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage, an ice-riddled sea route between the Atlantic and ...