Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition is a moment of history that piques a great deal of interest and imagination ...

Franklin emerged a hero, however, hailed by his countrymen as “The Man Who Ate His Boots” owing to the fact that expedition members resorted to eating leather during their tortured retreat south.

The fate of the Franklin expedition was popularized by Dan Simmons’s 2007 novel, “The Terror,” in which the crew is hounded by a bloodthirsty beast. In its opening pages, ...

An engraving shows the end of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition based on a painting by British artist W. Thomas Smith exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1896.

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 ...

Douglas R. Stenton, Stephen Fratpietro, Robert W. Park. Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin’s Northwest Passage expedition. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports ...

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 ...

Franklin expedition captain who died in 1848 was cannibalized by survivors Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.

The fate of the Franklin Expedition has bedeviled millions for nearly two centuries now. In 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, set sail from ...

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, ...