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

Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team explored the legendary shipwrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost on the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. Their research added to the body of ...

The remains of two of the Franklin expedition ships weren’t found until about 10 years ago. There were no survivors. Schwatka released his own book about his 1883 adventures in Alaska, “ Along ...

The Illustrated London News depicted some of the Franklin Expedition relics found on King William Island, including a copy of the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (No. 5) and Sir John Franklin's ...

Devon Island is often remembered in association with the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845. A total of 129 men, aboard ...

The island was named after Devon in England and it has no permanent residents due to its treacherous conditions. The ...

In Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time, a young woman must help a naval commander snatched from death in 1847 adapt to the ...

Tottering on the very fringes of the map, for the hardy Shetlanders used to life on the edge, the brutal double barrage of famine and poverty ...

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 ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...