Traversing the ice-bound sea lane across the Arctic Ocean connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans had long been a dream of ...

None would survive. These last members of Sir John Franklin’s doomed 129-man expedition to map the Northwest Passage all perished, many just a few miles from where they’d started—although the bodies ...

Researchers in Canada have been exploring the wreck of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition. The voyage departed from England in 1845 to chart the Northwest Passage. Michelle Fleury explains the ...

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 ... to map the Northwest Passage ...

Third, the formidable Jane, Lady Franklin, made a mythical hero of her late husband as “discoverer of the Northwest Passage.” Fourth and above all, here we have, as National Geographic put it, the ...