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

The adventurer and author of Into the Ice recounts his harrowing attempt to sail the Northwest Passage and why he always listens to his gut.

Despite that failure, Franklin was appointed to lead an overland expedition to explore subarctic Canada in 1819. His route would take his party—which included physician/naturalist Sir John ...

The 1845 Franklin Expedition was the penultimate attempt at discovering the Northwest Passage, a sea route along the northern tier of North America that would provide England with a coveted ...

Led by seasoned naval captain Sir John Franklin, 128 men set off from London in May of 1845 to pioneer a route through the ... how the mystery of the lost expedition was solved.

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 ...

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 ...

Their mission: Chart the last unexplored area of the Canadian archipelago for a likely route to the Bering ... but no trace of the Franklin expedition was found until 1854. That’s when the ...

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 ...