In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage ... William Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago ...

A new DNA analysis has identified the remains of Captain James Fitzjames, a Royal Navy officer who disappeared on a doomed Northwest Passage expedition ... a team of Canadian scientists have ...

Sir John Franklin led the two ships and 129 men in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The expedition's disappearance shortly after became one of the great mysteries of the ...

Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Arctic Canada. Credit: UIG via Getty Images “I can assure you it is a vessel that has the highest icebreaking ...

Last year, a Canadian warship came upon a Chinese research ... At the same time, the Northwest Passage, once a frozen graveyard, is increasingly navigable throughout the year.

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 puzzles. For years, ...