The following letter, though it adds little or nothing to our previous stock of information in regard to the fate of the expedition of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN, is a pleasing testimonial of the gratitude ...

The screw schooner Isabel, sent out by Lady FRANKLIN, many months since, by the way of the ?? of Magollan, has arrived at Vaiparaiso, where, we are sorry to learn, a disagreement among the ...

Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to the Arctic captivated the Victorian public with its mysterious disappearance, fruitless rescue missions and gory tales of cannibalism.

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by researchers from the University of Waterloo and Lakehead University using ...

Back in 1845, Sir John Franklin set out with two ships, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, to find the Northwest Passage. They vanished without a trace, sparking one of history's great maritime ...

The 6,736-mile journey takes 112 days, which provides plenty of time for readers to learn the story of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and the 128 men he led on an expedition to discover ...

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified using DNA and genealogical analyses.

Amid frigid Arctic conditions, dwindling rations, and no hope in sight, the surviving crew of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition to chart a Northwest Passage to China finally ...

Extreme adventurer Mark Synnott is out with his third book, chronicling his attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage in a 47-foot fiberglass boat.

At times it reads like an academic paper, as Synnott references the work of various historians through the years who have investigated the Franklin expedition. He takes us back nearly two centuries to ...